Philippines, one of the most badly hit countries by COVID-19 pandemic across Asia, may see a decline in banana exports moving forward, thanks to the government’s failure to contain the deadly and highly contagious virus.Continue Reading
Colombia, the world’s fourth-largest banana exporter, has maintained production and exports of the yellow fruit to its largest buyers, despite the twin threats of coronavirus and dangerous fungus Fusarium TR4, an industry leader said Friday.Continue Reading
A different pandemic is hounding the local banana industry, which already saw production this year cut by as much as 20 percent.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Dispatch A drastic decline in prices of Matooke has frustrated farmers from parts of Ankole, one of the biggest producers of Matooke, both a cash and food crop. Matooke production has over the years transformed livelihoods across the region, with more people depending on the food crop to earnContinue Reading
SOURCE: Khann Chanvirak, Khmer Times Kampong Cham provincial governor Un Chanda said yesterday at a press conference the province has exported over 20,000 tonnes of fresh yellow bananas to international markets during the first six months of this year. At the event held at the Council of Ministers, Mr ChandaContinue Reading
SOURCE: PTI, Deccan Herald With the easing of lockdown curbs, banana growers from Ardhapur tehsil in Maharashtra’s Nanded district have started getting demands for export of the fruit to Gulf countries, helping them fetch a better price for their produce. The state agriculture department is also guiding farmers from theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ramesh Kumar Poudel, The Kathmandu Post Banana farmers in Chitwan are switching to G9 banana because the Malbhog variety, which has been providing them a good income, is being increasingly plagued by disease. But fruit growers have not been able to completely give up the yellow Malbhog banana. AlthoughContinue Reading
SOURCE: IPP Media Through the ambitious project, beneficiary farmers are trained to embrace best agronomic practices, including soil fertility, ways of conserving soil moisture and to mitigate common banana pests and diseases. Other practices are creation of basins for harvesting water, banana weevils trapping and pairing of planting suckers. ThroughContinue Reading
SOURCE: HortiPower Bananas are the most consumed fruit across the world and make up about 75% of the annual tropical fruit trade. With a growing population worldwide the demand for bananas is ever increasing. As a result tissue culture labs that specialize in banana are increasing their production. In thisContinue Reading
Banana production in Turkey could reach a sufficient level to meet the entire domestic demand by 2023, according to the country’s leading banana growers.Continue Reading
Jeju Island was long considered the only warm-enough region in Korea for commercial banana farming, but climate change is now turning the mainland into a producer of the tropical fruit.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Laxmi Devi, Business Insider Unfazed by the COVID-19 risks, farm scientists from two Lucknow-based ICAR institutes are on the front line to control a fungal disease in banana crop especially in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ahead of the planting season. Fusarium wilt with tropical race 4 (TR4) strain isContinue Reading