SOURCE: Global Times Thoeun Sannikthik, a third-year student at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) in Cambodia, was glad to be one of the participants in a Chinese-organized training workshop on standardized banana production technologies, saying that the course was very valuable for agriculture students. Lectured via video link byContinue Reading
The symposium will be co-organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Centre de Recherche Agronomique pour le dévelopment (Cirad) as part of IHC 2022Continue Reading
SOURCE: AP News The Spanish Navy has started helping farmers on the volcanic island of La Palma to reach their lava-surrounded banana plantations by sea, Spain’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday. A scale 5 earthquake overnight offered a reminder that the eruption on the island of 85,000 is continuing strongContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The Agriculture Department has not received any report of Helicobacter “worms” attacking banana crops in Malaysia, said its director-general Datuk Zahimi Hassan. He said the viral video on the alleged discovery of Helicobacter worms in bananas contained unauthentic and dubious information. Zahimi explained that Helicobacter is aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Aimee Chanthadavong, ZDNet Everything from weather monitoring stations, soil moisture sensors, and RFID tags are helping Bartle Frere Bananas improve the way its bananas are grown and moved through the supply chain. “If you can trace a cow, you can track anything,” Gavin Devaney, owner and managing director ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edelmiro Franco V, Birmingham Times Banana producers and exporters in Latin America warn the high costs of supplies and the low international price for the fruit are negatively impacting sustainability and competitiveness in the industry. That has serious consequences, on various levels, for more than 800,000 families in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sylvain Andzongo, Business in Cameroon Cameroon exported 17,842 tons of banana in October 2021, up by 7.3% year on year, according to figures compiled by the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). This performance was facilitated by two of the three operators: société des Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP) andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Weixin TRANSLATION: Freshplaza In the tropical fruit greenhouse of Kaitaiyu Base in Jinshan District, Shanghai, the farm has built a special greenhouse, which adopts the new breeding mode of “double greenhouses plus double films + a combination of planting and breeding”. In this way, although it’s cold in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Zoe Wood, The Guardian The huge popularity of bananas makes them a weapon in UK supermarket price wars, but the tactic is hurting farmers amid soaring production costs, growers have said. The major supermarket chains are ignoring the impact of higher raw material and freight costs because they wantContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lucía Vásconez, El Comercio TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Data published by the Central Bank of Ecuador (ECB) confirms that banana and plantain exports between January and August 2021 have decreased when compared to the same period of the previous year. In this period, shipments of Musaceae to international markets reached aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Livemint A team of Indian scientists has used tea and banana waste to prepare non-toxic activated carbon, which could useful for industrial pollution control, water purification, food and beverage processing, and odour removal. The newly developed process avoids usage of toxic agent for synthesising activated carbon, thus making theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Andrew Spence, InDaily An Adelaide company that has spent more than 15 years perfecting its system of turning banana plantation waste into food packaging has completed a factory-scale trial to demonstrate the commercial viability of producing pizza boxes, burger clamshells, meal containers and dishes. The share price of publicly-listedContinue Reading