SOURCE: The Star The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted local agricultural products and exports, especially to China, disrupting agricultural value chains and posing risks to farming households. According to Dr Đào Thế Anh, deputy director of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the most affected agricultural products are fresh fruits, vegetablesContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror JAPAN is poised to overtake China as the Philippines’s top banana export market this year as total purchase by Japan ending September grew 8.8 percent on the back of firmer consumer demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) trade data showedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhel Nazario, Manila Bulletin Fruits indigenous to the country have been found to be rich in antioxidants by researchers from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. These fruits – as-is, binukaw, kamansi, kolong-kolong, niyog-niyogan, paho, sampinit, pili, and bignay – have been confirmed by chemists from UPLB toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vishwa Mohan, Times of India India’s use of technology for crop improvement might be finally catching up after years of neglect with Indian scientists making progress in using gene-editing to develop Vitamin A-rich banana and improved varieties of rice, millets, pulses and tomato even as absence of a regulatoryContinue Reading
SOURCE: Manuel Rueda, Business Insider A company in Colombia is making eco-friendly plates out of the tops of old pineapples. And just like a pineapple top you can plant in your backyard, the plates made by Lifepack contain seeds that can sprout in soil. The plates are Lifepack’s latest effortContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nacho Sanchez, El Pais TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Avocado cultivation in Malaga has grown exponentially in recent decades. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, the province has gone from having 50 avocado trees in 1943 to 1.5 million avocado trees in almost 7,000 hectares nowadays. ThisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marvin Barquero, La Nacion TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Honduras’ Hass avocado has gone from accounting for 4.17% of all Costa Rican imports of this fruit in 2018 to 30% in the first nine months of 2020, positioning the Central American country as Costa Rica’s leading supplier of Hass avocado. According toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lorna Nicholas, Small Caps Agricultural waste technology company Papyrus Australia (ASX: PPY) has re-confirmed its presence in Egypt where it is offering revenue opportunities for banana producers in the region using their waste. Through joint venture entity Papyrus Egypt, the company has established operations in Sohag. Papyrus Egypt developedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sarah Tétaud, Axadle In Madagascar, lychee exporters have been living the most important eight days of the season since November 13, the opening date for the fruit harvest. The only real unknown: will Western buyers put litchi on the holiday table? Trucks, vans, wagons: a real broom of lycheeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Saigon News Online Strengthening the connection with overseas Vietnamese businesses in the US is seen as a good opportunity to link and develop distribution channels of specialty products of Vietnam in general, and the Mekong Delta, in particular, to a potential market like the US. According to Mr. BuiContinue Reading
SOURCE: China.org Kenya is likely to resume exports of mangoes to the European Union (EU) in December after a period of five years, a government official said on Tuesday. Benjamin Tito, director, Horticultural Crops Directorate told Xinhua in Nairobi, that the country imposed an export ban of the crop dueContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has identified new potential growing regions for Hass avocado as it looks to capitalise on demand in China and offset deforestation. In a statement Emmanuel Piñol, secretary of MinDA, said eight areas had expressed interest in the agency’s environmental farming programme,Continue Reading