SOURCE: Reuters The Philippines on Wednesday appealed directly to consumers in its top export market Japan to pay higher prices for imported bananas to help shoulder a surge in production costs. Prices for fuel and agricultural supplies are driving many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy, according to a reportContinue Reading
by Eduardo, 247 News Agency The Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and BanEcuador presented a proposal this Sunday “to relieve financial pressure” faced by banana producers due to the war in Ukraine which has affected the trade of this fruit, of which Ecuador is the world’s leading exporter. ItContinue Reading
by Laxmi Sah, The Kathmandu Post Banana farmer Sadhuram Kharel of Nijgadh 9 lost most of his plants to a violent storm in April. A devastated Kharel, who has been growing the fleshy fruit for 10 years, isn’t interested anymore in casting his ballot on Friday. Many farmers in nineContinue Reading
SOURCE: Times of India Farmers engaged in banana cultivation are lamenting that the government has left them to fend for themselves after the recent rain coupled with strong winds destroyed hundreds of their banana plants in Trichy district. The gales had destroyed hundreds of banana trees in Lalgudi, Thottiam, Musiri,Continue Reading
by Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has committed P3m (US$570,000) to fund a new Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) marketing campaign in Japan. According to a report from The Philippine Star, the campaign was designed to improve access and raise prices in one ofContinue Reading
by Produce Report There was a time in China when the storage and ripening of bananas was a major pain point for fruit distributors and wholesalers. That was before high-capacity, modern banana ripening facilities had been built. Nowadays, owing to banana ripening operations such as the one that opened lastContinue Reading
by Andrew Dunne, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine/Phys.org In the 1950s, the “Gros Michel” variety of banana was wiped out by Panama disease. The banana crop in some locations was basically eliminated by the disease of fusarium wilt, caused by a pathogen that enters the plant through theContinue Reading
by D. Balasubramanian, The Hindu In the 1985 science fiction film Back to the Future, a flamboyant inventor modifies his car into a plutonium-powered time machine and travels back and forth in time. During a visit to the year 2015, he updates his engine so that it will now takeContinue Reading
by Lisbeth Zumba, Expreso translation: Freshplaza Producers and authorities continue to define a short-term solution for the fruit that hasn’t been sold since the war conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, and whose value would amount to more than $45 million, according to Acorbanec. This week, representatives of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sandip Das, Financial Express India will soon commence exports of banana and baby corn to Canada, after market access had been approved. According to a statement by the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare on Friday, market access for Indian banana and baby corn has been provided to Canada,Continue Reading
SOURCE: East Fruit The volume of banana imports to Uzbekistan in March 2022 amounted to 15 400 tonnes, which is almost three times higher than in the same period in 2021, citing official data on imports of main food products. In total, Uzbekistan imported 40 100 tonnes of bananas fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Voun Dara, Phnom Penh Post Pivoting from cutting bamboos to collecting non-timber forest products, nearly all of the working-age population of Taken commune in Kampot province’s Chhouk district have been working on the banana plantations of Longmate Agriculture Co Ltd since 2017. Unlike recent claims made in international media,Continue Reading