SOURCE: Deekshitula Subrahmanyam, Hans India The price of apple guava (a variety in guava) is more than apple. The fruit is being sold at a price of more than Rs 20 each. Until two years ago, it was sold at in dozens but now it is selling on the basisContinue Reading
The high-density variety of guava developed by the College of Forestry and Horticulture, Neri near here, has started replacing papaya in the lower reaches of the state. Earlier, farmers of the region were encouraged to grow papaya and they had cultivated it even in polyhouses in Hamirpur, Bilapsur and UnaContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kim Honan, ABC Rural The last remaining commercial guava farmer in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales is preparing to rip out two-thirds of the orchard’s 3,000 trees. It follows one of Australia’s largest growers bulldozing his orchard on the Alstonville plateau earlier this year to convert toContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star After facing difficulties in selling vegetables and losing thousands of ringgit each day following the movement control order last year, Abdul Halim Abdullah decided to turn to Lohan guava (GU16) farming. Abdul Halim, 45, who has been cultivating vegetables such as chillies and eggplants for the pastContinue Reading
SOURCE: Himanshu Nitnaware, The Better India Magan Kamariya from Morbi village in Gujarat was a traditional vegetable farmer with a 15-acre land. On it, he would grow groundnut, cotton, cumin and other vegetables, but conventional farming failed to reap many profits. In fact, it barely helped his six-member family survive.Continue Reading
The output of guava orchards has been severely affected by mealybug insects due to which growers are suffering losses amounting to 60-70% in and around Larkana district, said Sindh Chamber of Agriculture President Sirajul Oliya Rashdi. “Pesticides used for killing other insects are being used by the growers to eliminateContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Economic Times A video showing a group of farmers dumping freshly-harvested guavas into a civic garbage collection vehicle here has gone viral on social media, with the experts saying that a bumper crop of the fruit this year has resulted in its prices falling. The wholesale prices ofContinue 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: Bruna Garcia Fonseca, ANBA Virtually no fruit is being flown off from Brazil right now. Since volumes are not enough to fill up a cargo plane, most of the product used to ship in the cargo compartment in regular flights, which are grounded amid the worldwide quarantine. Some 10%Continue Reading
SOURCE: Dawn Locusts have entered Kohat from the neighbouring Orakzai tribal district, attacking wheat crop and guava orchards in Mian Garhi, Mitha Khan and Muhammadzai areas. Director agriculture Zahirullah Khattak confirmed that locusts had entered Kohat, but said teams would leave for the affected areas early on Wednesday to carryContinue Reading
The first shipment of Taiwanese guavas to the United States set out from Nanxi District in Tainan on Friday, following the signing of an export agreement by the two countries in October. Approximately ten metric tons of the fruit will be transported by sea to the American West Coast,Continue Reading
The guava production has tremendously been affected in Larkana district, where orchards are spread over 30,000 acres of land. Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) Larkana president Sirajul Oliya, confirming a drastic reduction in guava production this season, linked the damage to climate change paired with locust and mealybug attacksContinue Reading