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The South African fruit industry appealed to the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) not to involve railway and port workers in the on-going freight industry strike. “Around 460 000 people are employed full-time in the fruit industry and two million people are dependent on their income,” Fruit SA chairmanContinue Reading

Vietnam has been unable to fully control the safety and quality of fruits and vegetables, especially those imported from China due to the latter nation’s overlap of management in the sector. The information was provided at the yesterday meeting on imported food safety organized in Hanoi by the Institute ofContinue Reading

The Australian papaya industry is relatively small, but strong demand in markets such as Melbourne suggest the industry could expand. At a field day in the Northern Territory this week, growers were given the latest information on the tropical fruit and were lectured on the pros and cons of enteringContinue Reading

BEIRUT: October ushers in pomegranate season in Lebanon, bringing this healthy and delicious fruit to carts and shops across the country. Believed to have originated in what is today Iran, the fruit dates back thousands of years and has been mentioned in holy books, including the Old Testament and theContinue Reading

As the saying goes, behind every successful man there is a woman, such is the story of a couple in Tunyi village in Bulambuli District, who switched from growing traditional crops to growing passion fruit. For Steven Magoro, 50, and his wife Beatrice, this was the way to go sinceContinue Reading

A new US$47,631 mango ripening and storage center has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve the country’s access to European and local gourmet markets, website Lanaciondominicana.com reported. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contributed US$19,180 towards the centre, which is aimed at reducing poverty and helping economicContinue Reading

FRUIT and veggie prices are set to fall as summer nears and vegetables from Queensland become more available, AusVeg says. Peak industry body AusVeg said the price drop would come from an increase in supply. AusVeg’s public affairs manager William Churchill said consumers would see a markedly reduced price inContinue Reading

by CHUKWUMA MUANYA Can chewing the leaves of guava plant be the novel cure for infertility in men? THERE is hope in the horizon for a local cure for infertility in men. New findings by Nigerian researchers suggest that the extracts of the leaves of Psidium guajava possess beneficial effectsContinue Reading

The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), an agency attached to the Agriculture department, will conduct next year commercial testing of a mango drying system that is expected to cut costs for makers of processed mango products.   “Based on research by PhilMech, the local mango industry isContinue Reading

New regulations threaten to entangle U.S. fruit exports to an important Asian market. While the Indonesia government did recently rescind its intention to close the port of Jakarta to imported produce, another regulation set to go into effect Sept. 28 could cause problems for U.S. produce exports, said Mark Powers,Continue Reading