SOURCE: Bindu Gopal Rao, The National News You have to walk on the bund, else your feet and shoes are both going to sink into the mud,” Syed Ghani Khan tells me as I try hard to match his steps while navigating his mango farm on a wet day. IContinue Reading
The July-August 2021 issue of the TFNet Newsfeed includes updates on ISTF2021, a report on an FAO-TFNet meeting, ISODOFT2021, and the Malaysia National banana Congress. Other highlights are: NEW ZEALAND: Kiwis go bananas, not for toilet paper, during a lockdown SOUTH KOREA: Peru drives surge in avocado imports PAKISTAN: FirstContinue Reading
SOURCE: Produce Report TRANSLATION: Jing Zang, Produce Report Since July of this year, prices of Thai mangosteens on the Chinese market have been trending downward, falling by as much as 50% in some cases. This drop in prices has been fueled primarily by a stagnant domestic fruit market in ThailandContinue Reading
SOURCE: Van Phuc, Saigon Online Dragon fruits are classified as a key export fruit product and often in the groups of commodities in Vietnam registered export sales of more than US$1 billion each. Despite the fact Vietnamese dragon fruit has access to several global markets, including China, Thailand and Indonesia,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Richard Smoley, Produce Blueprint Every now and then, it’s a good idea to step back and look at the proverbial Big Picture. The recently released OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, which covers the present to 2030, provides that opportunity. (OECD = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; FAO = Food andContinue Reading
SOURCE: John Hey, Fruitnet Chile most of Korea’s fresh fruit import categories saw a decline in volumes during 2020 amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, avocados bucked the trend, increasing by 61 per cent year-on-year to top 13,000 tonnes. The rapid growth has continued in 2021, fuelled by aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ida Lim, Malay Mail Coconut was what Malaysians ate the most in terms of weight in 2020 out of 14 fruits included in an official study, with the second being durians. In the Department of Statistics Malaysia’s (DOSM) report released today, the per capita consumption or the yearly individualContinue Reading
SOURCE: Samantha Dick and Matt Brann, ABC More than 160 seasonal workers from Vanuatu have landed in Darwin to bolster the Northern Territory’s mango-picking workforce for this year’s harvest. The workers arrived on a chartered flight from Port Vila on Tuesday and will spend the next 14 days at HowardContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mintu Deshwara, The Daily Star Farmers are enjoying tremendous success cultivating papaya in fallow lands in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district, thanks to bumper yield and a reasonable market price. Favourable weather conditions and the availability of cheap fertilisers led to a huge harvest this season, according to theContinue Reading
SOURCE: ncw365.com TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Conditions in Chinese banana production areas have not been great in the last few weeks. The production volume is growing as more and more bananas ripen, but the product quality is uneven. The speed of market supply is currently quite low. In some production areas thereContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Joyce, Fruitnet Evert Wulfrank, CEO of Belgium-based Durabilis, describes Ethiopia as a country full of opportunities. Back in 2011/12, he says, while seeking an additional source for snowpeas and sugarsnap peas to complement the company’s supplies from Guatemala and Peru, Ethiopia emerged as the best candidate. “It wasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hu Meidong and Zheng Caixiong, China Daily Tseng Chun-yi has been busy discussing with technicians in Yongjing county of Gansu province how to pick dragon fruit, tend trees and manage orchards via remote video systems. “Now it is harvest time for dragon fruit and we are busy guiding theContinue Reading