SOURCE: Mehjabin Bhanu, Pressenza After wheat, rice and corn, banana is the most produced fruit in the world. That is, number 4. Asia-Pacific is the main center of banana production. Basically, India occupies a large part of the world art market. Banana market is growing day by day, as aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Umamaheswara Rao, The Times of India Andhra Pradesh exported only about 246 metric tonnes of bananas in 2016-17. This is all set to cross the 50,000 MT mark this year after it achieved 43,000 MT exports last year. The quantum jump translates to a 200x increase in banana exportsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Ecuadorian banana exports from Jan. to Feb. 2023, amounted to 66.8 million boxes, 0.47% lower than in the same period of 2022. Primary markets for Ecuadorian bananas As for the destination of Ecuadorian banana exports, of the 66.86 million boxes exported in the first two monthsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jamaica Information Service The banana and plantain industry enjoyed a very productive 2022, recording a 2.8 per cent increase in banana production and 18.7 per cent for plantain. Despite the effects of Tropical Storms Grace and Ida in 2021, the industry rebounded to produce more than 72,000 metric tonnesContinue Reading
SOURCE: Business Mirror Guatemala is the largest economy in Central America and is an upper-middle country based on its GDP per capita of $4,603 in 2020, according to the World Bank. The Washington-based multilateral lending institution characterized its economy as having “the least volatile growth among its structural and aspirationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: New Straits Times A team of researchers from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka’s (UTeM) have developed an innovative plastic container made from tapioca and banana leaves. The researchers are from the varsity’s Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (FTKMP) and Mechanical Engineering Faculty. Dr Ridhwan Jumaidin, the team’s chiefContinue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Policy makers and experts from the banana sector and non-profit organisations gathered in Berlin earlier this month to hear about the sustainability efforts of Ecuador’s banana sector. The event, which took place in the auspices of Fruit Logistica, discussed the progress made so far, and exploredContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal A recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that banana exports are showing a troubling tendency to decline. The Market Review Preliminary Results study published by the entity said that during the first half of 2022 global export quantitiesContinue Reading
SOURCE: Andina TRANSLATION: Freshplaza An initiative promoted by the Organic Banana Agro-industrial Innovation project, executed by the APBOSMAM Agrarian Cooperative and Cedepas Norte within the framework of the Swiss Cooperation SeCompetitive Program (SECO), has helped more than 3,000 small organic banana producers in Piura improve their production quality and ventureContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Growers are using the Laos-China Railway to ship bananas from Laos to China, with the speedy means of transport ensuring that the fruit reaches its destination before overripening or going mouldy. In the past the shipment of agricultural produce was problematic because of the long time takenContinue Reading
The Philippine Cavendish banana has been keeping its head barely above water, despite growing stiff competition from Latin American growers and a still creeping and devastating Panama disease at home. It’s still holding its market though, government regulators and private growers would say, although the percentage share of what wasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Alicia Perera, ABC.net Since first being detected in May, banana freckle has spread to more than 40 properties across the Northern Territory’s Top End region. One of those is Julie-Ann Murphy and Alan Petersen’s farm, Rum Jungle Organics. The only commercial farm caught up in the outbreak, they’re nowContinue Reading