UN’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 officially closed
2022-02-27
IYFV2021 officially closed on February 24, 2022, highlighting the year-long activities held.Continue Reading
AUSTRALIA: Lychees lift off to US
2022-02-23
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Australian lychee industry has identified North America as a key market in its plans to develop exports. The industry has been able to maintain its trans-Pacific supply chain throughout the pandemic with the help of the Australian government’s International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) programme. ThisContinue Reading
MALAYSIA: Spike in cost leaves durian farmers in thorny spot
2022-02-23
SOURCE: Lo Tern Cheng Durians may cost more in the coming harvest season this April due to a spike in the cost of fertilisers and pesticides. Farmer Max Goh, 46, said the price of multiple kinds of fertiliser used on his farm of about 400 trees has gone up byContinue Reading
MEXICO: Avocado shipments are resuming after the U.S. lifts its ban
2022-02-22
SOURCE: Deepa Shivaram, NPR The U.S. Department of Agriculture is resuming inspections of avocados from Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City announced Friday. The move allows the U.S. to resume imports of the popular fruit, which had been temporarily halted for nearly a week. The ban, which went intoContinue Reading
MEXICO: All set for positive mango campaign
2022-02-22
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Mexico is set to export around 61.66m cartons of fresh mangoes to the US market in 2022, a similar volume to last year. The quality of the crop is reported to be excellent. Eduardo Castillejos, president of the Association of Mango Exporters of Mexico (Emex), saidContinue Reading
INDIA: At $3.26 mn, pineapple exports record near 100% growth
2022-02-20
SOURCE: Daiji World India’s pineapple exports rose by almost 100 per cent to $3.26 million during the April-December period in 2021, compared to $1.63 million recorded in the corresponing period of 2013, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry informed on Monday. The major export destinations last year were the UAEContinue Reading
PHILIPPINES: P306-M worth of pineapple packing plant launched by DOLE
2022-02-19
SOURCE: Kasan M., Bangsamoro The start of commercial operations of the state-of-the-art pineapple packing plant of Wao Development Corporation (WDC), a subsidiary of multinational fruit company, Dole Philippines, Inc. (Dolefil), was formally launched thru a ceremonial ribbon cutting by the officials from the Regional Bangsamoro Board of Investments (BBOI) onContinue Reading
STUDY: Blasting bananas with light could pave the way for more ‘eco-friendly’ biomass
2022-02-17
SOURCE: Lottie Limb, Euronews Banana peels zapped with a powerful lamp can be instantly turned into renewable energy, scientists have discovered. This new method of extracting hydrogen – also possible with corn cobs, coffee beans and coconut shells – could be a significant way of boosting supplies of the gasContinue Reading
ECUADOR: Banana sector hopes signing of FTA would allow recovery of Chinese market
2022-02-16
SOURCE: Liza Sambrano, Expreso TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The presidents of Ecuador and the People’s Republic of China, Guillermo Lasso and Xi Jinping, reached an agreement in the Memorandum of Understanding for the signing of a Free Trade Agreement. This trade agreement would be very important for the Ecuadorian banana sector asContinue Reading
CAMBODIA: Country to export mangoes to Europe
2022-02-12
SOURCE: Freshplaza The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Directorate of Agriculture has urged farmers and investors to adopt more effective off-season mango cultivation techniques and modern agricultural practices to ramp up exports to the European market, as a practicable alternative to mainland China. Ngin Chhay, head of theContinue Reading
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Rains affect planting of rice and bananas
2022-02-07
SOURCE: Dominican Today According to preliminary evaluations made by the Ministry of Agriculture, at least a thousand rice plantations and some banana plantations were affected by the floods in Monte Cristi. A commission appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Limber Cruz, determined that so far it has not been possibleContinue Reading