A four-part virtual workshop series on “Safeguarding the Banana Industry from Fusarium Wilt: Research Updates and Opportunities in Asia Pacific” was held on October-November 2020.Continue 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: 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: 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: The Hindu Kerala’s famed ‘Nendran’ bananas are all set to be shipped to London in March next year. The trial export to London is in accordance with the sea-shipment protocol of the Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Keralam (VFPCK), a company established to bring about overall development of theContinue Reading
Source: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, phys.org The banana has its earliest origins in Papua New Guinea, where it was domesticated by indigenous communities at least 7,000 years ago. This ancestor, Musa acuminata, subspecies Banksii, looks very different from the ubiquitous Cavendish banana: peeling back its skin reveals hundreds ofContinue Reading
Source: Thou Vireak, The Phnom Penh Post Cambodia exported more than 235,171 tonnes of fresh yellow bananas to international markets in the first nine months of this year, up more than 225.69 per cent year-on-year, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said. Ngin Chhay, the director-general of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: The New Indian Express The area under banana cultivation in the district has increased after almost five years. Cultivation has crossed last year’s area and horticulture department officials said an additional thousand hectares were likely to come under cultivation by the end of November. Once cultivated in about 10,000Continue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Karst, The Packer Bananas remain America’s favorite fruit, but growth is slow at the top. U.S. banana imports from August 2019 to July were 5.12 million metric tons, up less than 1% compared with the previous year. By value, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports banana imports totaledContinue Reading
A four-part virtual workshop series on “Safeguarding the Banana Industry from Fusarium Wilt: Research Updates and Opportunities in Asia Pacific” will be held from October to November 2020 via Zoom, organized by the International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet), the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Guangdong Academy of AgriculturalContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Philippine Star The country’s largest business group, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), is calling on the government to diversify the local banana industry in order to keep up with an increasingly competitive global market. In a webinar organized by the Stratbase ADR Institute on Wednesday,Continue Reading
The St. Lucia government announced this week that 110 banana farmers attended two special workshops organized and conducted by the Taiwan Technical Mission in collaboration with the Banana Productivity Improvement Project (BPIP) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Co-operatives.Continue Reading