SOURCE: Andreo Calonzo, Bloomberg Get your potassium while you can. The coronavirus pandemic may limit supplies of bananas in Asia. Growers in the Philippines, the world’s second-biggest exporter, said overseas shipments may drop by nearly 40% this year as lockdowns and social distancing measures curb output and transport. The country’sContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pragna L. Krupa, Bangalore Mirror Banana vendors are singing a sad song these days. The real aam aadmi’s fruit (Indian political party), that thousands of people subsist on in the absence of a meal, is scarce. The lockdown has been bad for banana vendors. Not that the production ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Brice R. Mbodiam, Business in Cameroon In March 2020, the two banana producers still operating in Cameroon exported 13,891 tons of the product, according to data from the banana producers’ association Assobacam. Compared with the 19,967 tons the two companies (Plantations du Haut Penja and Boh Plantations Plc) exported inContinue Reading
Source: K Shiva Kumar, New Indian Express Harvesting banana, taking it to Kerala market may attract Rs 20,000 (USD 263) fine! As the Mysuru and Chamrajnagar districts have Nendram banana variety in hundreds of acres ready for harvest they have no takers and even laborers to harvest the stocks. WithContinue Reading
Source: The Hindu Business Line India exported 1,27,230 tonnes of banana, fetching ₹447 crore (USD 60 million), between April 2019 and January 2020, which is nearly 30 per cent more in terms of quantity and 49 per cent in value terms over the corresponding period last year, Agriculture Minister NarendraContinue Reading
This is a fact. Bananas resume a top earner among all agricultural products, earning revenue for local development in Laos.Continue Reading
Source: Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh, Business Insider The Banana Producers Association of Ghana has raised concerns over the effects of illegal mining is posing to their operations. The Association said the activities of illegal miners are currently preventing banana producers in Ghana from farming along river banks in the country. ExplainingContinue Reading
In February 2020, the two banana exporters still active in Cameroon exported 14,965 tons of the product.Continue Reading
Original source: Chhut Bunthoeun, Khmer Times Fresh bananas are still being exported to the Chinese market. However, fresh mangoes to the South Korean market have been badly hit by the Noval Coronavirus effect on fresh fruit markets. Longmate Agriculture, one of the local companies allowed to export bananas directly toContinue Reading
Original source: Reina Gattuso, Atlas Obscura 3,000-year-old microparticles prove the fruit traveled across the ocean with early Pacific Islanders. A typical day for Monica Tromp might include scraping tartar off 3,000-year-old human incisors. “It’s basically like being a dental hygienist for the dead,” says Tromp, an Affiliated Researcher at NewContinue Reading
Original source: Enrico dela Cruz, Reuters Work stoppages and market closures in China stemming from a coronavirus epidemic are hurting small- and medium-sized banana growers in the Philippines, the world’s second largest exporter of the fruit, an industry group said on Monday. Mainland China is one of the Southeast AsianContinue Reading
A delegation of Taiwanese experts in the cultivation of bananas has traveled to Honduras in a Technical Cooperation Mission with the objective of evaluating and improving the conditions of banana.Continue Reading