JAPAN: Pineapples qualify for the Tokyo Olympics
2021-03-18
Pineapples, along with mangoes, dragon fruit, and bananas, have met the requirements to be served at the Tokyo Olympics.Continue Reading
CAMBODIA: Exporters seek expedited mango exports to China amid price slump
2021-03-18
SOURCE: Emily F, Produce Report According to local Cambodian news outlets, in late February Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries submitted a list of 25 mango farms and 3 mango packing facilities to China’s General Administration of Customs for inspection. The Cambodian authorities were hopeful that the GAC wouldContinue Reading
AUSTRALIA: South Australia prepares to welcome 1,200 South Pacific fruit pickers
2021-03-16
SOURCE: Australian Associated Press, The Guardian About 1,200 South Pacific fruit pickers are expected to arrive in South Australia to help fill critical shortages of seasonal agriculture workers. The SA government’s attempts to encourage unemployed locals to take up fruit picking jobs failed to attract enough workers. A regional Covid-19Continue Reading
Pineapple farmers upbeat as demand soars in north India
2021-03-15
SOURCE: The Hindu Pineapple farmers across the State are possibly looking at around 20% rise in fruit production, even as demand has gone up in north India following the winter season and COVID-19 restrictions. Farmers, numbering around 5,000, have brought more area under cultivation, as planters opted out of rubberContinue Reading
JAPAN: Excess fungicides found in exported bananas
2021-03-15
SOURCE: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News Just as Taiwan is intensifying its exports of pineapples to Japan following a ban by China, the Japanese ordered the removal of 750 boxes of Taiwanese bananas due to excessive levels of fungicides, reports said Saturday (March 13). However, the Council of Agriculture’s Agriculture andContinue Reading
INDIA: Mango production likely to jump 4.24% in 2020-21
2021-03-14
The agriculture ministry on Monday said the Mango production in the country is estimated to increase by 4.24% to 21.12 million tonnes in the crop year 2020-21 ending June.Continue Reading
FIJI: New papaya and pineapple products launched
2021-03-10
SOURCE: Sainiani Boila, Fbc News With increased papaya and pineapple production, the Agriculture sector is now packaging them as dried fruits for the international market. Output has increased to 4000 and 7000 metric tonnes respectively. Agriculture Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy says the commodities will help farmers and generate income forContinue Reading
MALAYSIA: Penang’s durian season will arrive late this year but harvest expected to be high quality
2021-03-08
Penang’s durian season will be late this year but better quality fruits are expected when they start falling in May.Continue Reading
USA: High-tech detection determines pineapple harvest needs
2021-03-07
Researchers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, IntelinAir, Inc. and Columbia University are investigating whether remote sensing and computer vision can help pineapple growers carry out regular inspection of the field and automated counting of flower intensity.Continue Reading
COLOMBIA: Apiarists say avocado buzz is killing bees
2021-03-05
For the second time in two years, Gildardo Urrego is scooping up piles of dead bees after an invisible evil invaded his hives in northwest Colombia, wreaking havoc among his swarms.Continue Reading
CHINA: Taiwan pineapple banned over biosafety issue
2021-03-02
SOURCE: Huang Lanlan, Global Times Chinese mainland’s latest import ban on pineapples from Taiwan will hit the island’s pineapple industry hard, which highly depends on the mainland market, said industry insiders from both sides of the Taiwan Straits reached by the Global Times on Friday. Starting March 1, mainland customsContinue Reading
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: An exotic experience from fruits grown in their backyard
2021-03-02
SOURCE: Gillian Caliste, Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A mango tree expected to bear eight types of mangoes and a tree that will yield both balata and sapodilla. These are some of the innovative offerings of Rajesh Ram and Sadee Sanichar-Ram of the Exotic Fruit Plant Shed in New Grant, PrincesContinue Reading