SOURCE: The Sun Daily The “contract farm” model for pineapple cultivation improves youth skills and generates income in a challenging economic climate, said the Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB). Its chairman, Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali said close collaboration with the private sector will be intensified to ensure economic spillover ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mehjabin Bhanu, Pressenza After wheat, rice and corn, banana is the most produced fruit in the world. That is, number 4. Asia-Pacific is the main center of banana production. Basically, India occupies a large part of the world art market. Banana market is growing day by day, as aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kevin Rotich, CapitalFM Kenya is looking for avocado markets in Malaysia as it finalizes import requirements in the Asian country. Kenya’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Francis Muhoro, wrote a letter to the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate (KEPHIS) to finalize import requirements for commodities. Malaysia offers an untapped market forContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kelantan branch aims to generate up to RM200,000 in revenue this year from the sale of MD2 pineapples and slips that it grows on a 1.6ha land in Bukit Tiu here. Its agrobusiness unit coordinator, Hadhifah Fadhlina Ismail, is optimistic about meeting theContinue Reading
SOURCE: New Straits Times A team of researchers from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka’s (UTeM) have developed an innovative plastic container made from tapioca and banana leaves. The researchers are from the varsity’s Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (FTKMP) and Mechanical Engineering Faculty. Dr Ridhwan Jumaidin, the team’s chiefContinue Reading
SOURCE: The first sample batch of 300 Sarawak pineapples touched down in Singapore earlier this week. Sarawak Trade and Tourism Office Singapore (STATOS) chief executive officer Chew Chang Guan said the samples were already on their way to local traders for them to test in-market. He said the demand forContinue Reading
The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) is setting up a saba banana collection and export center at the Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park (KKIP), and the construction of the facility is expected to be completed mid next year. FAMA director-general Datuk Zainal Abidin Yang Razalli said the center, to be builtContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (LPNM) plans to introduce the night farming method for pineapple planting from next year in efforts to increase pineapple exports from 400,000 tonnes a year to 700,000 tonnes a year by 2025. Its director-general, Mohd Khairuzamri M Salleh said the night farming method hadContinue Reading
SOURCE: Azzman Abdul Jamal & Teoh Yee Shen, Malaysia Now While Malaysia’s participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is expected to boost economic performance through its facilitation of trade deals with member countries of the world’s largest trading bloc, questions have been raised over the possible effectContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gerald Andae, Business Daily Africa Malaysia and India are the latest big buyers eyeing Kenya’s avocado after China as the fruit continues to attract more international markets. The Business Daily has learnt that officials from Malaysia are currently in the country carrying out a pest risk analysis on theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Zarrah Morden, Malay Mail High demand coupled with limited supply of liquid nitrogen in Malaysia may cut the country’s durian exports, especially to China, hurting revenue for local producers, The Malaysian Insight reported today. Citing Duricious Sdn Bhd founder Simon Chin, the news portal reported that more Malaysian entrepreneursContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Sun Daily The value of Malaysia’s pineapple exports rose to RM1.1 billion last year from RM642 million in 2020, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries I Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah said. He said the commodity’s exports recorded an uptrend from 2016 to last year, consisting of variousContinue Reading