SOURCE: ICA TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Colombian mango exports to the European Union and the United States peak between March and August. In these months, Colombia will ship more than 200 tons of fruit from 39 small and medium-sized farms in five departments, which have been authorized to export this fruit byContinue Reading
SOURCE: AgroNegocios TRANSLATION: Freshplaza In the first half of the year, Colombian mango exports amounted to US$11.4 million, a 19.7% increase over the same period of the previous year that was driven by purchases from the Middle East. Colombia exports its mango to 22 international destinations. Heaven’s Fruits, the mainContinue Reading
SOURCE: Agencia Denoticias TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The results of the research carried out by Ruby Alejandra Loaiza Ruiz, a student of the Master in Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Nacional in Medellin, have become an important step to obtaining the UN Cotové papaya variety. Loaiza Ruiz picked up the work carriedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Photographs of mangos as big as soccer balls that were harvested in the department of Santander, Colombia went viral. A local news source said that Liliana Garnica Ruíz has the giant mango crops on her farm and that the fruit was from organic crops that useContinue Reading
For the second time in two years, Gildardo Urrego is scooping up piles of dead bees after an invisible evil invaded his hives in northwest Colombia, wreaking havoc among his swarms.Continue Reading
From humble origins on a 1.5-acre plot to flowering into a multi-million dollar industry for cultivators, Colombia recently over-took leading avocado producing nations as the main supplier of Hass to Europe, dominating 30% of the total market share.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Manuel Rueda, Business Insider A company in Colombia is making eco-friendly plates out of the tops of old pineapples. And just like a pineapple top you can plant in your backyard, the plates made by Lifepack contain seeds that can sprout in soil. The plates are Lifepack’s latest effortContinue Reading
Colombia, the world’s fourth-largest banana exporter, has maintained production and exports of the yellow fruit to its largest buyers, despite the twin threats of coronavirus and dangerous fungus Fusarium TR4, an industry leader said Friday.Continue Reading
In the week of the Living Wage and Living Income Conference, ‘The Only Way is Up’, Fairtrade recognizes the crucial role of governments, unions and employers towards improving living conditions for workers. Following years of engaging and advocating for decent salaries, Fairtrade is delighted to see progress in the bananaContinue Reading
Colombia has declared a national state of emergency following confirmation that a dread fungus has appeared in the country’s banana plantations. The 8 August declaration marks the first time that Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), which has devastated crops in Asia, has been confirmed in Latin America, the world’sContinue Reading
In a long-feared development, an extremely damaging banana disease has apparently reached Latin America. Late last week, the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) in Bogotá confirmed that four plantations in northern Colombia have been quarantined because of suspected infection with Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), a fungus that kills plantsContinue Reading
Municipal leaders of Santo Tomás and Palmar de Varela, Colombia, have urged for an agricultural calamity be declared in the Atlantic due to the devastating and widespread effects of citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB) which means ‘yellow dragon’ in Mandarin. The tropical fruit disease is bacterial andContinue Reading