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
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
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
Isolates of the Black Sigatoka fungus, a banana crop disease, have been identified from seven banana-producing countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa for the first time on a large scale by Dutch researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR).Continue Reading
SOURCE: East Fruit The global market for bananas, one of the most popular fruit on the planet, has experienced a number of shocks: information is spreading in many countries’ media about imminent complete disappearance of bananas, and their prices are high everywhere, according to EastFruit. According to EastFruit price monitoringContinue Reading
SOURCE: Stephan Kueffner, Bloomberg Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter, is on high alert for its vital crop as neighboring Peru grapples with an outbreak of a fungus deadly to the tropical fruit. “We’ve reinforced practically everything,” Agriculture Minister Xavier Lazo said in an interview, after confirming with Peru’s governmentContinue Reading
SOURCE: Anne Ewbank, Atlas Obscura California’s deadly, damaging wildfires worsen by the year. The state’s naturally dry landscapes, parched by a changing climate, have turned into tinderboxes. A stray match or lightning strike has the capacity to incinerate forests, fields, and neighborhoods. Last year saw a summer and fall ofContinue Reading
Russian fruit imports in January 2021 remained virtually unchanged compared to the same month in 2020, but changes in the import structure were significant.Continue Reading
Andhra Pradesh is going bananas with its banana production. The state, which is India’s largest producer of the humble fruit, is surpassing its own records, thanks to a series of initiatives both by the government and private sector in the last three years.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hindu Crisis triggered by a dip in demand Banana and tapioca farmers across the district are facing a steep fall in prices owing to a dip in demand, though banana farmers are looking forward to a slight improvement in the situation after March, ahead of the Onam season.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Infobae TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Panfilo Ayala, director of the Argentine Agrarian Federation and a reference for the Laguna Naineck subsidiary, stated that many banana producers in the province of Formosa, in northeastern Argentina, are quitting the activity because of its lack of profitability. “Lack of profitability is a long-standing problem.Continue Reading
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