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SOURCE: Luisa Cheshire, Fruitnet UK banana importer and ripener SH Pratt Group has announced the acquisition of the commercial arm of Ripe Now, a mango and tropical fruit supplier to major British supermarkets and food manufacturers. The deal is expected to broaden SH Pratt’s product portfolio to include the supplyContinue Reading

SOURCE: The Hindu Under the Special Scheme for Mukkani Development, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday spelt out various measures to boost the cultivation of mango, jackfruit, and banana in the State during 2024-25. While presenting the Agriculture Budget for 2024-25, Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare M.R.K. Panneerselvam saidContinue Reading

SOURCE: Dominican Today The DR should continue taking advantage of the avocado market but with responsible crop management not to pay Mexico’s ecological price. When at a food fair held in the United States in October 2019, José Acosta watched Dylan Williams’ reaction to tasting a tropical avocado or CáscaraContinue Reading

SOURCE: Saboor Bayat, BNN Breaking In the heart of Paraná, Brazil, the Family Farmers Cooperative of the Municipalities of Amenorte (Cooanorte) has launched its passion fruit harvesting season. With 65 of its 130 members actively participating, this initiative is a testament to resilience, collaboration, and the promise of a sustainableContinue Reading

Ecuador welcomed the lifting of a Russian ban on banana imports from the South American nation amid a spat over a weapons deal benefiting Ukraine. Authorities in Moscow had cited the detection of pests as the reason for suspending imports of bananas and flowers from Ecuador 10 days ago. ButContinue Reading

SOURCE: Michael Le Page, New Scientist Regulators in Australia and New Zealand have given the green light for farmers to grow a genetically modified banana resistant to a devastating fungal disease spreading worldwide. A genetically modified banana has been approved for growing on farms for the first time. Regulators inContinue Reading

SOURCE: East Fruit Morocco restored its banana imports in 2023 after a significant slump in the previous year, reports EastFruit. By August 2023, Morocco has already imported more bananas than in the whole of 2022, when the global trade of this product faced a severe crisis due to natural disasters,Continue Reading

SOURCE: Africa News As the fashion industry worldwide increasingly embraces more eco-friendly material, an innovative project in Kenya is turning leftover pineapple leaves into footwear. “In the past we would burn or throw away or replant pineapple suckers,” said pineapple farmer, James Kinuthia. “Later on we met with this companyContinue Reading

SOURCE: Krishak Jagat Madhya Pradesh is gaining visibility in the global agri-export market. It is exporting 30 thousand metric tons of bananas annually from the Burhanpur district alone to Iraq, Iran, Dubai, Bahrain, and Turkey. The fame of Banana of Burhanpur has gone far and wide. Thanks to the bananaContinue Reading

SOURCE: Safaa Kasraoui, Morocco World News Morocco continues to export a significant number of avocado products despite appeals and pledges to rationalize water use amid drought, according to new data compiled and reported by the Agriculture-focused website FreshPlaza. In a report published earlier today, the website revealed that Morocco exportedContinue Reading