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
SOURCE: The Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (LPNM) plans to introduce the night farming method for pineapple planting from next year in efforts to increase pineapple exports from 400,000 tonnes a year to 700,000 tonnes a year by 2025. Its director-general, Mohd Khairuzamri M Salleh said the night farming method hadContinue Reading
SOURCE: Alicia Perera, ABC.net Since first being detected in May, banana freckle has spread to more than 40 properties across the Northern Territory’s Top End region. One of those is Julie-Ann Murphy and Alan Petersen’s farm, Rum Jungle Organics. The only commercial farm caught up in the outbreak, they’re nowContinue Reading
SOURCE: fb/jd, TVP World Farmers in Kenya are starting to shift from traditionally grown maize to avocados because of their better prices and yields. One such farmer, Albert Gumo, started his avocado journey just over a month ago and has already had two successful harvests. He is happy with theContinue Reading
The international webinar on ‘Enhancing global consumption and trade of passionfruit’ was held on 29 September 2022 and organized by the International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet).Continue Reading
SOURCE: Azzman Abdul Jamal & Teoh Yee Shen, Malaysia Now While Malaysia’s participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is expected to boost economic performance through its facilitation of trade deals with member countries of the world’s largest trading bloc, questions have been raised over the possible effectContinue Reading