SOURCE: Khaosod Thailand has recently signed the deal to export 5,000 tons of bananas to Japan after a labour shortage during the previous government hampered the order. Chantapun Bunjamanon, director of the International Trade Promotion Department in Tokyo, said the office had previously worked with the Nakhon Ratchasima provincial tradeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Japan Times Australia is seeking to increase mango exports to Japan following the recent removal of restrictions on the varieties of the fruit that can be shipped to a market it sees as having growth potential. Australia wants to take advantage of its mango season, which is different fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fruitnet Queensland-grown bananas and melons have been shipped to Japan, in an Australia-first trial aimed at breaking into the potentially lucrative Japanese market. The red-wax-tipped Ecoganic bananas, grown in north Queensland by Pacific Coast Produce, have been sent to a banana tasting and promotion event in high-end Tokyo retailContinue Reading
The Philippine Cavendish banana has been keeping its head barely above water, despite growing stiff competition from Latin American growers and a still creeping and devastating Panama disease at home. It’s still holding its market though, government regulators and private growers would say, although the percentage share of what wasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Reuters The Philippines on Wednesday appealed directly to consumers in its top export market Japan to pay higher prices for imported bananas to help shoulder a surge in production costs. Prices for fuel and agricultural supplies are driving many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy, according to a reportContinue Reading
SOURCE: Su Mu-chun and Ko Lin, Focus Taiwan The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) on Tuesday said it had registered with Japan’s agricultural ministry a new pineapple variety that it developed in 2019. The new cultivar, named Tainung No. 23, was developed by TARI’s Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Station, which isContinue Reading
SOURCE: Eliza Berlage, ABC Rural Justin Loffler has avoided dumping his avocados amid an oversupply of the fruit but his business has taken a hit from low prices. Growers are keen to find new markets knowing more trees are about to mature and avocado prices dived under a $1 inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Natalie Tso, RTI Taiwan’s atemoyas, or “pineapple sugar-apples,” will be sold in Japan for the first time starting March. Atemoyas are a fruit that are a cross between sugar-apples and the tropical cherimoya fruit. Japan’s decision to import Taiwan’s atemoyas comes after China banned importing the fruit from Taiwan,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Kyodonews A mango producer in northern Japan’s Hokkaido which grows the tropical fruit using heat from local hot springs and harvests them in winter has begun shipping to high-end supermarkets in Hong Kong in December. This is the first time for Noraworks Japan, headquartered inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Free Malaysia Today Taiwan is turning to Japan to find new customers for its sugar apples after top buyer China suspended imports of the luxury fruit amid festering tensions between Beijing and Taipei. Nurturing fresh appetite in Japan for the knobbly green fruit, prized for its creamy flesh, couldContinue Reading
Pineapples, along with mangoes, dragon fruit, and bananas, have met the requirements to be served at the Tokyo Olympics.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News Just as Taiwan is intensifying its exports of pineapples to Japan following a ban by China, the Japanese ordered the removal of 750 boxes of Taiwanese bananas due to excessive levels of fungicides, reports said Saturday (March 13). However, the Council of Agriculture’s Agriculture andContinue Reading