News (Page 200)

by Gabrielle Easter, Fruitnet   Avocado production and consumption continues to rise in Australia, with more than 68,000 tonnes of avocados expected to hit retail shelves in coming months.   Ideal weather conditions have set the scene for a bumper crop from March to November, says grower-owned marketing company the Avolution.Continue Reading

by Kelly den Herder, Fresh Plaza   “Who was expecting this radical change? The year 2015 was one of the worst years in Ecuadorian history for bananas. We weren’t expecting a big change anytime soon, but the market has turned around completely since January 2016 and the demand for Ecuadorian bananasContinue Reading

by Matthew Jones, Fruitnet   Australian citrus exporters have received a timely boost on the eve of their peak season, with another round of tariff reductions invoked in Japan.   The cuts are the third round of reductions to be made under a free trade agreement between the two nations, finalisedContinue Reading

  According to ProColombia, some 275 Colombian agribusiness products, including cocoa, quinoa, exotic fruits like gulupa and gooseberries, confectionery, fresh flowers, bakery, and products from the milling industry, have a chance in the European market.   “The European Union has become a hub for the agroindustrial sector. It is oneContinue Reading

by Matthew Jones, Fruitnet   All was not lost for New Zealand’s avocado sector in a season that stakeholders are referring to as a “short crop” year.   Industry projections put the total export crop at around 2.5m trays (5.5kg), short of the pre-season forecast of 3m trays and some 2mContinue Reading

by Gabrielle Easter, Fruitnet   The CIQA officials visited an avocado orchard in Katikati, heard presentations from NZ Avocado, Zespri, Pipfruit New Zealand and New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries, and also toured the Plant & Food Research site in Te Puke.   While New Zealand-grown apples and kiwifruit haveContinue Reading

  EU support is set to counteract the Russian food embargo on European food products; Cyprus’ Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis is set to secure additional EU support for the local citrus trees sector and agriculture in general.   “I want to stress that so far we have succeeded in obtainingContinue Reading

  On Tuesday 15 March, two thousand crates of Spanish lemons and oranges were destroyed at a Chinese port. Two days later, Spanish diplomatic confirmed that the 20-ton shipment destroyed did not meet export requirements and that they approved the decision not to allow the fruit shipment into the AsianContinue Reading

  Citrus gall wasp (CGW) has recently emerged as a major pest in southern citrus crops; in order to deal with the problem the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is leading a project with entomologist Jianhua Mo, who aims to manage the pest with its natural enemies, new generationContinue Reading

  On Wednesday 16 March, the Florida Citrus Commission advised staff to project revenues for operations on the basis of a much-smaller crop thaN in the current year. The commission is under pressure from a large group of growers which called on them to downsize in February, as the industryContinue Reading

by Yzza Ibrahim, Fresh Plaza   The mango crop in Pakistan has met expectations this year. Growers, orchard owners and exporters were expecting a plentiful harvest this season. A record flowering had already been seen in mango trees. There have been no traces of infections of fruit flies in anyContinue Reading