Despite Australia’s borders being shut to overseas arrivals, up to 170 workers from Vanuatu will be brought to the Northern Territory under a pilot program aimed at filling labour shortages in the mango growing industry.Continue Reading
KN Narayana Gowda, a farmer who would sell his papaya produce at Rs 18 (USD 0.24) per kg before the coronavirus outbreak, says that about 3-4 tonnes of ripening fruits on his 4-acre patch of land comprising 4,000 trees, remain unharvested.Continue Reading
Dwindling harvests, drooping demand and export supply chains hit by the coronavirus are biting into Pakistan’s mango industry, with producers of the prized fruit battling to weather a disastrous season.Continue 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
SOURCE: Monogya Loiwal, India Today Fruit vendors in West Bengal are in a fix as they are forced to sell their produce at a relatively lower price than it was sold before the country was hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Guava cultivators, who sold their produce at Rs 7-8 perContinue Reading
SOURCE: PTI, Deccan Herald With the easing of lockdown curbs, banana growers from Ardhapur tehsil in Maharashtra’s Nanded district have started getting demands for export of the fruit to Gulf countries, helping them fetch a better price for their produce. The state agriculture department is also guiding farmers from theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune The farmers said wholesalers and their representatives from different parts of the country flock to the upazila every year when the harvesting season begins. Despite bumper production, jackfruit growers in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur are incurring losses due to a lack of customers and falling prices broughtContinue Reading
The export of Pakistani mangoes is in jeopardy due to coronavirus pandemic coupled with devastating impact of climatic change on agriculture in the country.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Japan News Bananas and mangoes, among other imported fruits, are in shorter supply in Japan as the coronavirus pandemic has caused lockdown-driven delays in harvesting, flight reductions and a subsequent decline in cargo volumes. This has prompted some retailers to raise the prices of suchContinue Reading
Before panic over the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) gripped the country, mobile workers in the mango industry could hop from one town to another armed with fruit-inducing chemicals, pesticides, sprayers, ladders and bundles of old newspapers.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Pattaya Mail The COVID-19 outbreak has caused Thai fruit exports to slow down due to the lockdown of many partner countries. The Ministry of Commerce, has therefore, sought ways to solve the problem by launching a campaign to increase domestic consumption and designating May and June “Thai Fruits GoldenContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pakistan Today As the mango exports from Pakistan are expected to kick off with a delay and in apparently less quantity due to the coronavirus pandemic, the exporters have requested the officials to allow the labor from South Punjab to travel and work in mango orchards to save billionsContinue Reading