Territorians have reacted angrily to a national directive requiring all banana trees in every backyard and farm across much of the Top End to immediately be destroyed. All locally grown bananas will disappear from Darwin until 2017, under a disease eradication plan to rid Australia of the recently detectedContinue Reading
by Ganesh Prabhu and Mohit M. Rao Banana plantations in many places in the district have been affected by the pest ‘Erionota torus’, also known as Banana Red-Eyed Skipper, Banana Leaf Roller or Banana Skipper, leaving farmers in distress. The pest is a chocolate-brown butterfly belonging to the familyContinue Reading
by Grant Butler Avocados make wonderful additions to sandwiches and salads, and the world would be a less-happy place without guacamole. But sometimes you only need half an avocado for a recipe, and the remaining half can begin to discolor and turn an unappetizing shade of brown quickly. ThereContinue Reading
Juices, jams, puree, dried flesh, roasted seeds, dried fruit with seed, and shell flour as an antioxidant will be new processed products from Rambutan that will be produced by farmers in the southern region of Costa Rica. As explained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), processing will benefit aboutContinue Reading
One of the recent issues regarding agriculture is the growing concern of climate change, which is affecting food production therefore affecting food security. Besides grain crops and staples, fruits, especially tropical fruits have been singled out as important food crops that need to be improved and developed to complement andContinue Reading
TFNet has been invited to participate in the “Informal Technical Consultation on Banana Fusarium TR4 during CCP” on 8 October 2014 at the Food and Agriculture Organization Office in Rome, Italy. This consultation will be a follow up of TFNet’s side event panel “Mitigating and adaptation measures for theContinue Reading
Bearing the theme ‘Mitigating and adaptation measures for the control of banana Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four (TR4), including the successful development of resistant cultivars’, TFNet will hold a side event at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 70th Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP) meetingContinue Reading
Costa Rica should see its first China-bound pineapple shipment ‘within the next four months’, following a successful visit by Chinese authorities to the Central American country. Three officials from China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) ended a 1.5-week visit to Costa Rica last Wednesday, havingContinue Reading
Following the breakthrough in mango exports between private sectors in 2013, Pakistani mangoes are now being sold for the first time by the largest high-street retailer in Japan, AEON Corporation – a $57-billion entity. The development came in the form of a soft launch at the new AEON MakuhariContinue Reading
The total income of Gambia Mango out Growers has hit a staggering D2, 910, 440 in 2014, representing an increase of D221, 207.2 compared to the last year’s total income of D698, 368. This also shows an increase of the kilograms of mangoes harvested from 92, 048 kilograms last yearContinue Reading
Myanmar is planning to export four agricultural products to South Korea’s tightly controlled agriculture market this fiscal year, a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce said. Toe Aung Myint, director general of the department of trade promotion, told Myanmar Eleven that exports of mango, dragon fruit, mangosteen, andContinue Reading
The 8th Session of the International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) Board of Trustees (BOT) was held in Putrajaya, Malaysia on 12-13 August 2014. The Board of Trustees meeting was Chaired by Dr. Yi Ganjun, Vice-Chairperson of TFNet and Vice-President of the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. TheContinue Reading
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