News (Page 47)

SOURCE: Edwin Mutai, Business Daily Africa The first cargo plane of pineapples from Kenya will leave the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Israel on June 1, Parliament heard on Monday. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi told MPs that Kenya had inked a deal with the Jewish State that will seeContinue Reading

SOURCE: Gerhard Uys, Stuff NZ Cyclone Gabrielle and cold snaps in spring last year mean avocados are scarce on supermarket shelves, a grower and supermarket supplier say. Head of domestic avocado sales at fresh produce marketer and exporter Primor Regan Booth said New Zealand sat between two growing seasons. “NormallyContinue Reading

SOURCE: Thi Ha, Vietnam Express Vietnamese dragon fruit exporters are expected to have another difficult year as more countries grow the fruit and make the international market increasingly competitive. According to the General Department of Customs, Vietnam’s exports have been plummeting since 2019. In 2021 and 2022 it did notContinue Reading

SOURCE: IO Team Ugandan start-ups are leading the charge in upcycling banana waste into innovative products, transforming the nation’s circular economy. With 11 million tonnes of bananas produced annually, companies like TexFad, Nsenene, and Green Heat are unlocking the potential of the 70% waste banana production produces. TexFad creates bananaContinue Reading

SOURCE: Raviprasad Kamila, The Hindu The cultivation of Dang Surya, a red jackfruit variety of Malaysian origin, in Karnataka’s coastal region appears to be promising, going by the yield in the orchards of two farmers. T. Ramesh Nayak Thekkatte of Kamaxi Farm in Udupi district, and Gabriel Stany Veigas, aContinue Reading

SOURCE: The Star Wearing a white tank top inside a foggy greenhouse at his farm in Otofuke on the island of Hokkaido in Japan, Hiroyuki Nakagawa plucks ripened mangoes ready to be packed and shipped. Outside the temperature is a freezing -8C on a clear December day, but inside theContinue Reading

SOURCE: Donna Lu, The Guardian Scientists have submitted Australia’s first genetically modified fruit – a Cavendish banana – to regulators for approval, saying it has been engineered to withstand a deadly fungus that poses a threat to banana growers worldwide. The banana, known as QCAV-4, has been genetically modified toContinue Reading

by Vivian Sequera, Reuters A resistant fungus which wilts banana and plantain plants and infects soil could worsen the food crisis in Venezuela, where 6.5 million people already suffer hunger, growers groups and a United Nations agency say. The Fusarium tropical race 4 fungus has so far been located inContinue Reading

SOURCE: Arab News Saudi Arabia is on course to becoming self-sufficient in papaya, with the production of the tropical fruit increasing to 4,717 tons annually, as the Kingdom pushes to raise the rate of cultivation as part of achieving food security under Vision 2030. With 95 percent self-sufficiency, the Kingdom’sContinue Reading

SOURCE: CGTN Chinese scientists have recently discovered that passion fruit can directly kill the eggs of fruit flies, providing a new method to control the pest, according to a Science and Technology Daily report published Thursday. The fruit fly is a major pest species that reduces the yield of commercialContinue Reading