News (Page 178)

by Chan Shih-hung and William Hetherington, Taipei Times   Fruit prices, affected by a recent typhoon, have more doubled, with no end in sight, bringing one township that was spared the brunt of the storm enormous profits.   Typhoon Nepartak, which hit on July 8 with winds up to 205kph andContinue Reading

  The city-based Central Food Technological Research Institute has developed a waste-to-wealth model for banana cultivators, allowing them to convert waste into organic manure.   According to CFTRI director Ram Rajasekharan, it has been demonstrated with active participation of farmers at the institute. The institute stepped in following banana cultivators’Continue Reading

by Ashley Walmsley, Farm Weekly   PINEAPPLE growers have sharpened their knowledge on the widely-used herbicide diuron, determined to make the most of it while they can.   The two-day Pineapple Field Days in Yeppoon last week attracted more than 100 people, with suggestions 80 per cent of Australia’s pineapple farmsContinue Reading

    Date palms are an iconic feature of landscapes in the Middle East and North Africa. These graceful trees are one of the oldest known fruit crops and have been cultivated for well over 5,000 years, providing sustenance for generations.   To this day, dates have been an important internationalContinue Reading

by Fabian Koh, Straits Times     A drought in Malaysia has led to a spike in durian prices, with some sellers here charging over $10 a kilogram more than they were a year ago.   June and July usually form the peak season for the ‘king of fruits’ but theContinue Reading

by Muhammad Luqman, samaa.tv     Malik Mazhar Sandheela, the owner of an orchard near river Chenab in Multan is eying a 100 percent increase in the income from his mango crop this year.   To him, adoption of new production and pest management techniques have led to increase in theContinue Reading

by Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters   Venezuela’s mango season is providing some relief during worsening food shortages that are forcing the poor to skip meals and sparking a rash of lootings.   Facing Soviet-style food lines for increasingly scarce products at supermarkets, more and more people are turning to the South AmericanContinue Reading

by Zac Sarian, Manila Bulletin     A lady lawyer who is developing a farm in northern Luzon consulted us on what’s new in fruit trees. She said she has bought practically every variety from our nursery in Teresa, Rizal.   We learned that she is developing about eight hectaresContinue Reading

  Betzabeth Marquez, the head of the Compensation for Competitiveness Program (Agroideas) stated that the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri) will invest more than 44 million soles in the regions of Piura and Lambayeque to replace rice and other basic agricultural product crops with organic banana and avocado crops.Continue Reading

  “As soon as the ban to export Dominican avocados to the United States was abolished, producers and exporters began to make plans for this year’s campaign. Local consumption and export estimates have doubled and they will continue to grow year after year, as producers are interested in growing moreContinue Reading

  The Chilean Hass avocado industry is looking to build on last season’s exports of around 90,000 metric tons (MT), particularly in China where volumes are still small but are growing very quickly.   Chilean Hass Avocado Committee managing director Juan Enrique Lazo told www.freshfruitportal.com the industry only shipped one container when theContinue Reading