SOURCE: Lottie Limb, Euronews Banana peels zapped with a powerful lamp can be instantly turned into renewable energy, scientists have discovered. This new method of extracting hydrogen – also possible with corn cobs, coffee beans and coconut shells – could be a significant way of boosting supplies of the gasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liza Sambrano, Expreso TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The presidents of Ecuador and the People’s Republic of China, Guillermo Lasso and Xi Jinping, reached an agreement in the Memorandum of Understanding for the signing of a Free Trade Agreement. This trade agreement would be very important for the Ecuadorian banana sector asContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dominican Today According to preliminary evaluations made by the Ministry of Agriculture, at least a thousand rice plantations and some banana plantations were affected by the floods in Monte Cristi. A commission appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Limber Cruz, determined that so far it has not been possibleContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fruit Reviewer Cambodia exported 7.98 million tons of agricultural products in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 63.8%. In terms of fruit, Cambodia exported nearly 377,000 tons of fresh bananas and 4,771 tons of fresh mangoes to China. After successfully knocking on the door of the Chinese market, the fieldContinue Reading
SOURCE: La Nacion TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Paraguayan banana exports generated a total of 19.3 million dollars in 2021, i.e. 23.7% more than the 15.6 million dollars reached in 2020, according to data from the Single Window of Export (VUE) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC). “We had already seenContinue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Ecuadorean banana exports rallied in the fourth quarter of 2021 to finish the year on 378.2m boxes according to the latest figures from Acorbanec. This was a decrease of less than 1 per cent on the 2020 total. Between October and December, shipments totalled 96m boxes,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Zulfiqar Kunbhar, Arab News HYDERABAD, Sindh: Scientists in Pakistan’s southeast Sindh province have begun extracting fiber from banana waste in what textile industry stakeholders and farmers hope could become an alternative to cotton. Banana fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers. Biodegradable and similar to bamboo fiber, itContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vincent D’Silva, New Strait Times Three Form Four students of SM I.J. Convent here won second prize at the National Tinkering Challenge 2021 held in Kuala Lumpur recently for developing packaging material from banana stems. Some 200 students nationwide took part in the competition, which called for submissions forContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hannah Osborne, Newsweek A “devastating” disease that makes bananas look like they are bleeding when stems are cut has been found in mainland Malaysia and looks set to spread across southeast Asia, scientists have said. Banana Blood disease is caused by a type of bacteria that causes the plantContinue Reading
SOURCE: Puja Daya, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication Considered the most lethal banana disease in the world, the Fusarium wilt or Panama wilt, is a killer that is rapidly spreading in Latin America and hurting global supplies of the world’s most popular export banana variety — the Cavendish.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Honduran banana exports continue to feel the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota, which struck Central America country at the end of 2020. Figures from the Central Bank of Honduras show that the value of exports dropped US$200.5m to September, compared to the year-earlier period. TheContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ben Harden, Queensland Country Life After cyclonic winds, associated with tropical cyclone Niran, devastated the Capricorn Coast’s banana industry in early March, several banana farms are now getting back to full production. Hundreds of hectares of banana trees across the Cassowary Coast and Northern Tablelands were impacted, with someContinue Reading