CAMBODIA: Banana exports may reach 500,000 tons in 2022
SOURCE: People’s Daily Online TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Cambodian Banana Association Alliance held a symposium for member companies in Phnom Penh on August 6. More than 50 representatives from alliance member companies and guests from all sectors attended the event. Chen Qisheng, Vice President of Cambodia Chinese Chamber of Commerce andContinue Reading
NIGERIA: Thriving pineapple business in Abuja
SOURCE: Adeola Tukuru, Blueprint Nigeria Pineapple business is a lucrative business in Nigeria either by packaging and reselling them. Apart from its nutritional benefit and availability in the market, it is very easy to set up depending on location and how one wants to operate it. For its smallness, sellersContinue Reading
AUSTRALIA: Guava growers consider replacing ‘declining’ crop, but exotic fruit finds home in sour beer
SOURCE: Kim Honan, ABC Rural The last remaining commercial guava farmer in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales is preparing to rip out two-thirds of the orchard’s 3,000 trees. It follows one of Australia’s largest growers bulldozing his orchard on the Alstonville plateau earlier this year to convert toContinue Reading
AUSTRALIA: Banana freckle disease spreads to 12 new locations across the Northern Territory
SOURCE: Matt Brann, ABC Rural The Northern Territory government has confirmed multiple outbreaks of the fungal disease known as banana freckle. After initially being found on a single property near Rum Jungle in May, the government today identified 12 new sites of infection at Fly Creek, Batchelor, Marrakai and theContinue Reading
MEXICO: Avocado shortage due to war, the pandemic, inflation, and the climate crisis
SOURCE: Doris Gomora, Business Insider Mexico is the world’s top producer of avocados, a $3 billion-a-year industry that has earned the fruit the nickname oro verde, or “green gold.” But that moniker has taken on a new irony for everyday Mexicans, who have watched prices increase sharply amid the convergingContinue Reading
THAILAND: Mangosteen trees making way for pricier durians, says official
SOURCE: Nation Thailand Chonlatee Numnoo, director of the Agricultural Research and Development Office’s Region 6, wrote in a Facebook post that although as many as 140,000 tonnes of mangosteen fruit have been exported this year, the prices are not as attractive as those of durians. “So, it is not surprisingContinue Reading
INDIA: Banana exports jump 8-fold in 9 yrs
SOURCE: Business Today India’s banana exports have jumped manifold in the past nine years, confirmed Union Minister Piyush Goyal. The minister said that the banana exports jumped 703 per cent in value terms from Rs 26 crore (USD 3.2million) in April-May 2013 to Rs 213 crore (USD 26.7million) in April-MayContinue Reading
TFNet kickstarts international webinar series on minor tropical fruits with “jackfruit”
The international webinar on ‘Developing the jackfruit for global consumption and markets’ was held on 21 July 2022 and organized by the International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) with support from the Malaysian Department of Agriculture (DOA). This is the first of a series of webinars on minor tropical fruits toContinue Reading
INDIA: New fungal disease detected in jackfruit in Kerala
SOURCE: Tiki Rajwi, The Hindu Athelia rolfsii, a soil-borne fungal pathogen, is a major threat to several crops and was found in jackfruit samples collected from three districts. Compared to other fruits, jackfruit is considered relatively free of diseases, but now, researchers at the Integrated Farming Systems Research Station (IFSRS),Continue Reading
AUSTRALIA: Avocado oversupply has farmers begging consumers to eat more to reduce waste
SOURCE: Jodie Gunders and Tanya Murphy, ABC News Smashed on toast, tossed in a salad, or blended in a smoothie; whichever way you eat your avocados, farmers are pleading for consumers to eat more of them. A new report by agribusiness bank Rabobank said Australian growers would this year produceContinue Reading
TURKEY: Tropical fruit exports rise 85 percent
SOURCE: Hurriyet Daily News Türkiye’s tropical fruit exports exhibited an 85 percent increase last year from 2020 to amount to $13 million, according to a trade group. In the first half of 2022, exports already reached $7.9 million, said Hayrettin Uçak, the head of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and VegetableContinue Reading