SOURCE: Yury Garcia, The Star Banana growers from three provinces in Ecuador blocked main roads across the South American country on Monday to demand government action to boost prices they say are too low for them to meet production costs. Growers were blocking major highways in the provinces of ElContinue Reading
SOURCE: ncwxjt TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Recently, the overall volume of banana production in Yunnan has been limited and the sales have slowed down. In general, most of the banana production in Yunnan is about to enter the final stage, and there are not many high-quality fruits. Due to the impact ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kendy, Nation News The St Lucia government says it is encouraged by the talks held with an established buyer on the possibility of using Antigua as a distribution hub for the sale of bananas to countries in the region “Currently, we are moving between 2 000 and 2 500Continue Reading
SOURCE: Mercy Osongo, Kenya News The acting Devolution Cabinet Secretary, Eugene Wamalwa Tuesday commissioned a banana processing plant on the outskirts of Kisii town. Speaking during the function which was held at the plant site, Wamalwa said the banana plant is well-placed in a county that is one of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey, Thomas Cristofoletti, Andy Ball, and Roun Ry, South China Morning Post When the inhabitants of Trapeang Rung learned in 2017 that a 1,000-hectare banana plantation would be established in their village by Longmate Agriculture and was set to provide hundreds of jobs, there was jubilation,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Jie Shuyi, Yicai Global The Philippines may soon no longer be China’s biggest banana supplier as exports to the country sank 25 percent last year from the year before amid surging production costs and lengthier transport times, giving other banana exporters the chance to seize market share. It usedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Business Insider One in four women in India don’t have the supplies they need for their period. One startup is turning farm waste into biodegradable pads that could prevent the mountains of plastic trash conventional pads create.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Mercopress Ecuadorian banana producers in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro, have staged road blockades demanding the government to step in and purchase the surplus resulting from Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. “We request that the President of the Republic, with the surpluses from oilContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ecuador Times The banana producers propose to the Government the creation of a contingency fund with their own financing (from the banana producers themselves), through the withholding of $0.05 per box sold to minimize the losses that may be caused by the war between Russia and Ukraine. This alternativeContinue Reading
Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases potato size and yields. Reported in Nature Sustainability, a recent study shows the banana paper helps disrupt signalsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joymala Bagchi, The India Several sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh are shifting to the banana plantation. Farmers are taking to the banana plantation after facing payment delays and rising input costs in sugarcane cultivation. More than 35 lakh (3.5 million) farmers roughly are stated to be engaged in sugarcaneContinue Reading
SOURCE: Monica Exner, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication Whether you like your bananas slightly green or spotted, they are mostly grown in the tropics and subtropics where plants require a warm, humid climate to thrive. This is how they produce the yield that feeds the world. However, dueContinue Reading