Bananas are the most popular and ubiquitous tropical fruit with reference to its production, consumption, and global trade. Broadly, the fruit can be categorized under dessert bananas, such as the popular Cavendish variety and cooking bananas or plantains. According to FAOSTAT, banana global exports generated an estimated 13.5 billion USD,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hill Farmers in low-lying regions of Bangladesh are braving rising sea levels by cultivating their crops aboard hand-woven rafts. Faced with inhospitable growing conditions that could threaten their livelihoods, they are adapting to a climate of surging swamp waters by reviving a relic of the country’s past. TheseContinue Reading
SOURCE: Prakash Jha, Khmer Times According to a fruits and vegetables market study of Cambodia (2016- 26), the fruits market in the Kingdom is expanding and consumption is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.1 percent over the next 5 years. That China continues toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dominican Today Beginning at the end of January 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture will no longer permit the import of mangoes from Haiti. Fruit exporters immediately felt that this decision was a “strong blow” to their industry, which an industrialist claimed spent between $10 and $12 millionContinue Reading
Australia’s mango season is heating up with about 500,000 trays being picked and packed this week. The current crop forecast has Australia on track to produce more than 9 million trays this season, which is up on last year, but growers are facing plenty of challenges to get fruit toContinue Reading
The Philippine Cavendish banana has been keeping its head barely above water, despite growing stiff competition from Latin American growers and a still creeping and devastating Panama disease at home. It’s still holding its market though, government regulators and private growers would say, although the percentage share of what wasContinue Reading
The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) is setting up a saba banana collection and export center at the Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park (KKIP), and the construction of the facility is expected to be completed mid next year. FAMA director-general Datuk Zainal Abidin Yang Razalli said the center, to be builtContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet Philippine banana industry efforts to raise the price of bananas in Japan have been hindered by poor exchange rates A successful campaign by the Philippine banana industry to raise prices in Japan has been offset by foreign and domestic currency fluctuations. According to a report fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tim Karman, The Washington Post Avocados, the fruit known as “green gold” because of their ability to generate billions of dollars for producers, are apparently so abundant right now that South American farmers are just giving them away. A nonprofit group in Philadelphia passed out hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Oliver Whang, The New York Times Bananas, it turns out, are not what we thought they were. Sure, most, when ripe, are yellow and sweet and delicious slathered in peanut butter. But a global survey reveals many more appealing counterparts than the generic banana found in American supermarkets, withContinue Reading
SOURCE: Daily Sentinel SFA Gardens recently received grant support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service to investigate the potential of pineapple guava as a new, low-input fruit and ornamental crop for production in Texas. The project, funded through 2024, is a collaborative effort between SFA Gardens andContinue Reading