The week-long festival of Zambales province’s most popular produce – mangoes – was celebrated over from April 14-17 as provincial officials formally opened the annual Dinamulag Mango Festival. Dinamulag Festival is an annual thanksgiving for another year of bountiful harvest, officials said. Provincial Administrator and Festival Committee ChairpersonContinue Reading
Mangoes are a fruit typically associated with tropical climates and summer months, but a Western Australian farmer is proving that wrong. In the town of Harvey, two hours south of Perth and 33 degrees south of the equator, a flourishing mango plantation is still producing fruit, a month afterContinue Reading
The Jazan region will be granted a geographical indication for mangoes grown there. A geographical indication (GI) is a name or sign used on products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin. Mangoes were first grown in the region in 1982 when the Argricultural Research CenterContinue Reading
Mangoes from West Bengal will shortly find shelf space in Europe. The state government has initiated preparatory work to fill the shelves of malls in countries like the United Kingdom, Italy, France and others with the best of mangoes that are produced in Malda district. From June onwards, mangoContinue Reading
Kuppala Rama Gopala Krishna, a 24-year-old mango farmer from Vadlamanu village in Agiripalli mandal of Krishna district, has created a record by growing 18 different varieties of mangoes on a single tree in his seven-acre-farm. His feat is not only attracting local farmers, but has also drawn theContinue Reading
In 2017, two mangos sold at a Japanese wholesale auction for a record-breaking USD 3,744. Taiyo no Tamago (Egg of the Sun) is a variety of mango grown in the Miyazaki prefecture and sold throughout Japan. Although they don’t usually go for thousands of dollars, on any given day youContinue Reading
Even as mangoes move more into the mainstream for U.S. consumers, there are ways retailers can make consumers even more comfortable with the world’s most consumed fruit. Two big ones are point-of-sale marketing/education and cross-merchandising. Robert Schueller, director of public relations for Los Angeles-based World Variety Produce,Continue Reading
Mangoes are synonymous with hot summer months, and this season they will be as delicious as ever, but be prepared to pay more. The fruit has already made its debut in the market, but in small quantities and in very few varieties. Mango growers have suffered crop lossContinue Reading
Khagrachhari gardeners are eyeing a bumper production of mango this season as trees are in full bloom in every orchard in the district. Mango growers said favourable weather conditions have helped large scale flowering of the trees this season and they are expecting a bumper production of theContinue Reading
With conducive weather and alternate year for mango crop, the production of the fruit may increase by 10 to 15% in Uttar Pradesh. Orchards are in full bloom and flowering has been higher than last year. The horticulture scientists said that if wind speed and climate remained favourable, the seasonContinue Reading
Unless cecid flies were wiped out soon, mango production in all of Luzon would continue to plummet and the industry headed for collapse, a mango industry leader in Pangasinan province said on Friday. Mango production this season had dropped by at least 70 percent because of widespread infestation ofContinue Reading
Leading Peruvian supplier Camposol has teamed up with Dole China to introduce a line of Kent mangoes to the Chinese market. Branded under the name Peruvian Flame Mangoes, the fruit entered the Asian nation in the lead-up to Chinese New Year celebrations. Dole is distributing the fruit throughContinue Reading
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