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TOKYO — Dole Food has said it is in advanced talks to sell its packaged foods and Asian fresh fruit businesses to the Japanese trading house Itochu. Dole, the world’s largest fruit and vegetable company, said in a news release on Wednesday that it was negotiating with Itochu over aContinue Reading

Food exports from Chile to China saw a strong increase of 35 percent year-on-year to $438 million in 2011, according to Chilean government figures underscore the South American country’s position as one of the major fruit suppliers to China. Chilean fruit take up a substantial share of China’s fruit imports.Continue Reading

The Karnataka horticulture department is now looking at ways to ensure prevention of wastage of jackfruit. In this regard, it will look at food processing companies to develop value-added export products. According to S A Ravindranath, minister for horticulture and sugar, Government of Karnataka, horticulture/ agriculture department along with farmersContinue Reading

Magsasaka Siyentista (MS) Edita A. Dacuycuy, hailed as the “dragon fruit lady of the north”, once again shares her formula for success. In a technology field day held in her farm in Barangay Paayas, Burgos, Ilocos Norte, MS Dacuycuy narrated why she started her dragon fruit production ── for herContinue Reading

The tiny, rock-hard fruits of Pollia condensata, a wild plant that grows in the forests of Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and other African countries, can’t be eaten raw, cooked or turned into a beverage. In Western Uganda and elsewhere, though, the plant’s small metallic fruits have long been used for decorativeContinue Reading

Boonma Meekana has lung cancer. After undergoing 17 rounds of chemotherapy treatment his children were told their father would not live more than three days. “My condition got much worse. I became so weak physically I could do nothing but lie in bed all the time,” recalled Boonma. A nativeContinue Reading

A few months ago, Eric Helms, the 42-year-old founder and chief executive officer of Juice Generation, a chain of juice and smoothie bars in New York City, wanted to display what he calls “the next big superfruit” in his stores. Having bought exclusive import rights to a year’s supply ofContinue Reading

The 22nd Annual Hawaii International Tropical Fruit Conference kicks off September 13-16 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus on Oahu and continues with a free mini gathering on Maui, Kauai and the Big Island. Open to the public and presented by the statewide Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers (HTFG),Continue Reading

A recall of potentially salmonella-tainted mangoes from Mexico may have involved as many as 900,000 pieces of the tropical fruit. The Daniella-brand mangoes were grown and harvested in Mexico and sold in the United States between July 12 and Aug. 29, Splendid Products spokesman Ernest DelBuono said. The mangoes wereContinue Reading

Tropical fruit supplier Fyffes has warned of higher banana and pineapple prices due to rising fuel costs and adverse exchange rates. The warning came as the group posted a pre-tax profit of 22.4m euros (£17.7m) in the first six months of the year, up nearly 30% from a year earlier.Continue Reading