SOURCE: Andreo Calonzo, Bloomberg Get your potassium while you can. The coronavirus pandemic may limit supplies of bananas in Asia. Growers in the Philippines, the world’s second-biggest exporter, said overseas shipments may drop by nearly 40% this year as lockdowns and social distancing measures curb output and transport. The country’sContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pragna L. Krupa, Bangalore Mirror Banana vendors are singing a sad song these days. The real aam aadmi’s fruit (Indian political party), that thousands of people subsist on in the absence of a meal, is scarce. The lockdown has been bad for banana vendors. Not that the production ofContinue Reading
Source: Costa Rica Noticias Translation: Freshplaza Pineapple growers in the Northern Zone of Costa Rica face millions in losses due to the drop in demand for pineapple in their main export markets, the United States and Europe, which has worsened with the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The exportContinue Reading
SOURCE: Melanie Groves and Charlie McKillop, ABC Rural Australia’s avocado growers are urging brunch lovers to keep up their smashed avo habit at home after a dramatic crash in the market set off by the coronavirus shutdown of cafes and restaurants. The food-service industry is a massive market for avocadoContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam News Vietnamese enterprises shipped around 500 tonnes of goods, including coffee, instant noodles, sweet potato, cabbage, pineapple, watermelon, and dragon fruit, to Singapore in March, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore. The encouraging performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic was mainly thanks to the office’s efforts inContinue Reading
SOURCE: New Indian Express Several bundles of banana leaves are decomposing in markets these days. Due to the lockdown, two major buyers — restaurants and catering services — are staying away from procuring it. This has pushed the cultivators to the verge of heavy loss. “We have invested severalContinue Reading
Source: K Shiva Kumar, New Indian Express Harvesting banana, taking it to Kerala market may attract Rs 20,000 (USD 263) fine! As the Mysuru and Chamrajnagar districts have Nendram banana variety in hundreds of acres ready for harvest they have no takers and even laborers to harvest the stocks. WithContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edward Rajendra, The Star Durian traders in Klang have seen sales of the “king of fruits” plunge, and have now switched to selling eggs during the movement control order (MCO) period. In Berkeley Garden, durian trader Ang Lai Huat said that it is difficult to get durians from hisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Christine Armario and Marcos Pin Mendez For years, Dionisio Romero has relied for his livelihood on a magenta-colored dragon fruit that is wildly popular in Asia, planting dozens of the spindly trees at his farm near Ecuador’s Pacific coast. But as the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc worldwide, the 72-year-oldContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nadim Diab, CGTN When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But what if life hands you dragon fruit – and lots of it – instead? It’s a question that Vietnamese businesses have been pondering for weeks now, and they seem to have found the answer. Pink foods have takenContinue Reading
The global fruit trade has been coming into terms with the crippling effects of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 with fruit market channels and supply chains severely disrupted. These have direct implications on the purchasing behaviors of consumers and diets of the masses.Continue Reading
EFSA is closely monitoring the situation regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is affecting a large number of countries across the globe. There is currently no evidence that food is a likely source or route of transmission of the virus.Continue Reading