SOURCE: Rachel Chase, Alliance The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain – from collecting germplasm to post-harvest qualities. The Musa genus, which includes over 70 species and around 1,000 cultivars of bananas, represents a globally important source of food andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Livemint In a major boost to India’s exports of Geographical Indications (GI) certified agricultural produce, a consignment of fibre and mineral rich ‘Jalgaon Banana’ has been shipped to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. About 22 tonne of the GI certified banana was sourced from farmers of Tandalwadi village in Maharashtra’sContinue Reading
SOURCE: Selina Xu, Bloomberg Malaysian durians have topped fruit and vegetable presales at a big Chinese retail festival, showing the pulling power of the pungent delicacy. The top-selling variety at JD.com’s 618 festival — China’s second-largest shopping event after Alibaba’s Singles’ Day — was the Sultan durian from Pahang state,Continue Reading
Durian, which used to be a normal meal of the people, just like rambutans and mangosteens, is now beyond the reach of the common man. It has been promoted as the king of fruits not so much because of its taste or medicinal value, but more because its price isContinue Reading
SOURCE: Freshplaza Empaque Don Jorge I (EDJI) opened this past weekend, ready for the northern regions. EDJI is the hometown packhouse of El Grupo Crespo, Latin America’s largest hydro-thermal packhouse and the home to El Grupo Crespo’s two brands, Crespo Organic and RCF. Originally built by Roberto Crespo Fitch inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Leilanie Adriano, Philippine News Agency Commercial dragon fruit farming continues to attract growers all over the Philippines as countries like China and Spain manifested their interest to have a slice of this delicious cactus fruit species known for its therapeutic properties as it grows well in a tropical climate.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Helen Sullivan, The Guardian It was the summer of 2018 and Australians were sweating. In their hands: a single avocado pear, barely ripe. The price: $9. Could it possibly be worth it? And how many times had it been squeezed? Thankfully, though much has gone wrong in the worldContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mexico News Daily Mexico is now the world’s biggest exporter of papaya and sits in third place in terms of volume produced, which grew 3.2% last year. The country has 44.7% of the global export market, followed by Guatemala and Brazil, and became the third biggest producer in 2019,Continue Reading
Cambodia shipped some 205,024 tonnes of Cavendish bananas to foreign markets from January to May, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Daily Times As mango season has started, producers of the fruit are ready to export the product to the international market with a special focus on the Iranian market for being a close neighbor of the country. Pakistan is the fourth largest mango producer in the world and theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Anu Kuruvilla, New Indian Express Hit hard by the lockdown and the unseasonal rain, the district’s farmers — especially those cultivating tapioca and pineapple — are struggling to sell their produce as they continue to be offered prices way below the base rate set by the state government.“With theContinue Reading
In the past month, two Lao workers on a Chinese-owned banana plantation in central Laos have died from health problems that their fellow workers say were caused by exposure to toxic chemicals.Continue Reading