In Pakistan, mangoes are a prized household staple, with over two dozen varieties grown and exported all over the world.Continue Reading
Despite Australia’s borders being shut to overseas arrivals, up to 170 workers from Vanuatu will be brought to the Northern Territory under a pilot program aimed at filling labour shortages in the mango growing industry.Continue Reading
Top End mango growers are considering whether it’s worthwhile to send their early-season green mangoes to southern markets, with Vietnamese imports more than doubling this year.Continue Reading
Dwindling harvests, drooping demand and export supply chains hit by the coronavirus are biting into Pakistan’s mango industry, with producers of the prized fruit battling to weather a disastrous season.Continue Reading
According to the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, exporters dispatched three shipments of local mango varieties ‘Sindhri’ and ‘Chaunsa’ to Japan as per agreed procedures between the Department of Plant Protection (DPP) and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).Continue Reading
Cambodia previously obtained permission to export fresh bananas to China, and now the country is allowed to export fresh mangoes as well.Continue Reading
The export of Pakistani mangoes is in jeopardy due to coronavirus pandemic coupled with devastating impact of climatic change on agriculture in the country.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Matt Brann, ABC Rural The Australian mango industry has released its final numbers for the 2019/20 season, and they show Australia produced more than 10.6 million trays of the tropical fruit. It was the nation’s third biggest mango crop on record and the third season in a row theContinue Reading
Before panic over the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) gripped the country, mobile workers in the mango industry could hop from one town to another armed with fruit-inducing chemicals, pesticides, sprayers, ladders and bundles of old newspapers.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Neha Shukla, Times of India A thunderstorm on May 10 could have led to at least 25% loss of the fruit in Malihabad’s mango belt. The erratic weather, longish and harsh winter, and intermittent rains, had already reduced the crop. “There was 30% less fruit this time already. TheContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pakistan Today As the mango exports from Pakistan are expected to kick off with a delay and in apparently less quantity due to the coronavirus pandemic, the exporters have requested the officials to allow the labor from South Punjab to travel and work in mango orchards to save billionsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Shahid Shah, The International News Mango traders and growers are worried over labour shortage in orchards due to lockdown-led transport unavailability as harvesting is just around the corner, it was learnt on Monday. Mango plucking is about to start in Sindh from next week and unavailability of workers raisesContinue Reading