The Malaysia Banana Congress 2021 was held online on 7 – 8 September 2021, after a pre-event workshop on 3 – 6 September. The congress was organized by the Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture (CEBAR), University of Malaya, Malaysia, with International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) was one ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marco Trujillo and Nacho Doce, Reuters In more than 50 years growing bananas on the Spanish island of La Palma, Antonio Brito Alvarez has never seen anything like the devastation wrought by the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been spewing out molten rock and ash since Sunday. “All this is burnt,Continue Reading
SOURCE: ncw365.com TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Conditions in Chinese banana production areas have not been great in the last few weeks. The production volume is growing as more and more bananas ripen, but the product quality is uneven. The speed of market supply is currently quite low. In some production areas thereContinue Reading
SOURCE: John Elicott, Mandurah Mail It seems Kiwi shoppers are a lot more food smart going into a lockdown than their Tasman Sea cousins. As New Zealand went into lockdown on Tuesday after a COVID positive case was detected, it wasn’t toilet paper that shoppers were rushing for in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jay Pachchigar, Times of India Story books for school children in Chhota Udepur will soon be published on eco-friendly hand-made paper made from banana stems grown in this tribal area. The initiative will pave a new path of sustainability in publishing after a successful pilot project of making hand-madeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hortidaily TRANSLATION: Groentennieuws The Neder Banaan greenhouse in the Netherlands now boasts fully-fledged banana bunches. In June, the first flower appeared and the first Neder Banaan was ‘born’. Roughly 100 banana trees grow in the greenhouse. Some are for research purposes, but some bananas will be marketed. And they’llContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror The Philippines is not just losing market share in key banana markets to Latin American producers but investments as well, which could threaten the domestic output of the world’s second top producer of the prized yellow fruit, an industry group said. Pilipino Banana GrowersContinue Reading
The Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture (CEBAR), University of Malaya, is delighted to announce that the Malaysia National Banana Congress 2021 (MNBC2021) will be held on 7-8 September 2021. Continue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune Braving the Covid-19 pandemic, farmers are eying a bumper production of banana this year in Rangpur agriculture region where cultivation of the crop is continuously increasing. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said farmers have cultivated bananas on 4,209 hectares of land, including on 2,559 hectares duringContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror Despite a 14.38-percent contraction in total volume, the Philippines remained as the world’s second top exporter of bananas for the third consecutive year as it shipped 3.725 million metric tons (MMT) of the prized yellow fruit last year. Trade map data of multilateral InternationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lominda Afedraru, Monitor Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is a regular practice. But beyond supermarkets, barcodes can be employed across a whole spectrum of settings, including by scientists in their research. The accelerated breeding better banana project has developed and deployed a fully operationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Rachel Chase, Alliance The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain – from collecting germplasm to post-harvest qualities. The Musa genus, which includes over 70 species and around 1,000 cultivars of bananas, represents a globally important source of food andContinue Reading