SOURCE: David Winning, The Wall Street Journal To harvest red papaya in northern Australia’s tropical heat, farmer Paul Fagg has long drawn on an unusual labor pool of overseas tourists. Not this year. Australia crushed the coronavirus with one of the strictest border-control regimes in the world. But that successContinue Reading
SOURCE: Thai Business News With seasonal fruit about to hit the market, including durian, rambutan, and mangosteen, the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce has singed an agreement with CCIC Thailand to provide better traceability service for Thai fruit exported to China, following a new traceability requirement for all imported farm productsContinue Reading
The import of tropical fruits to Iran cost as much as $500 million annually, Mohammad-Mehdi Boroumandi, an official with Agriculture Ministry, said.Continue Reading
The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) together with TFNet will be organizing the ‘Persidangan Buah-buahan Kebangsaan” (National Fruits Symposium) from the 6th to 8th April 2021. Continue Reading
SOURCE: Nhan Dan Vietnam earned US$3.26 billion from exporting fruit and vegetables in 2020, a year-on-year decline of 13%, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported. Exports were down because many items with high export value saw volumes fall sharply, such as dragon fruit, which accounts forContinue Reading
The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) launched its food technology innovations and the Technology ‘Test Bed’ Laboratory for the Melaka Mardistation here today. Agriculture and Food Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah said the food innovation products are technologies to produce high antioxidant mango fruit leather andContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Survey of farmers in Thailand’s eastern fruit-growing areas shows that many plan on switching to durian next year, as prices for the crop surge thanks to domestic and overseas demand. In 2021, Chanthaburi, Rayong and Trat will produce an estimated 1.6 million tonnes of four major fruitContinue Reading
SOURCE: Luciana Viegas, IAEA “Irradiated for freshness” written across a juicy mango may raise some eyebrows, but the label has guaranteed Viet Nam exports worth US$20 million a year to the United States. Using irradiation to disinfest fruit is gaining traction in the premium produce trade, and Viet Nam, withContinue Reading
Guy Gaeta is normally surrounded by dozens of foreign backpackers, busily picking cherries and chatting away in several different languages. But this harvest his orchards remain worryingly quiet after the world’s toughest Covid-19 travel restrictions caused a shortage of workers.Continue Reading
The export of Vietnamese fresh fruit to the US will resume this week following the interruption since early August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Continue Reading
Fruit production in the southern region has expanded by nearly six per cent over the last year, with durian output seeing the most growth at 22 per cent, the Office of Agricultural Economics reported.Continue Reading
