The Philippines is struggling under the weight of a sweet but troublesome burden: a glut of 2m mangoes. The agriculture secretary, Emmanuel Piñol, said mango farmers had reported an “unusual increase” in the harvest, which they had attributed to El Niño, the climate phenomenon that has led to unusuallyContinue Reading
Fruit packer Diamond Star Corp., has expressed interest in importing 100 metric tons of mango, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said, an order which is expected to help address oversupply conditions after an El Niño-fueled bumper crop. In a social media post, Mr. Piñol said Diamond Star, whichContinue Reading
Crowds, both locals and foreigners, gathered for the first ever Cebu Mangoes Festival in the Mactan Newton in Lapu-Lapu City on Sunday, May 26. As part of the festivities, the “biggest mango sago (tapioca) dessert in the world” was also made out of 300 kilos of mangoes harvested fromContinue Reading
Central Queensland University (CQUniversity), Australia, has built the world’s first mango auto-harvester, with the first prototype achieving 75% efficiency in automatically identifying and picking fruit in view during its first field trials at Yepoon. According to the university, the prototype harvester takes approximately five seconds to harvest a fruit,Continue Reading
Claimed as a world’s first, CQUniversity Professor Kerry Walsh has revealed details of its mango auto-harvester at this week’s Australian Mango Industry Association conference in Darwin. CQUniversity has been conducting field trials of the first prototype of its mango sensor and auto-harvest technologies at Yeppoon in Central Queensland. TheContinue Reading
District administration in Rajshahi yesterday scheduled the date for beginning mango harvest on May 15, although growers in orchards say mangoes would not ripe until at least the end of the month. Mango growers can harvest Guti variety of mangoes from May 15 and other varieties successively. Continue Reading
During these troubled times in Venezuela, the mango has a new identity. “We call them ‘the noise takers’ because they calm down the noise that our stomachs make when we are hungry,” says Danilson Hernández, who manages a modest business that upholsters vehicles in Maracaibo, Venezuela. AndContinue Reading
May will see Jamaica send its first mango shipments to the US, according to Audley Shaw, the country’s minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries. According to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), the exported mangoes will be facilitated through the Mango Irradiation Programme, which stipulates the fruit must be treatedContinue Reading
India hopes to ramp up mango exports by 10 per cent to 15 per cent, banking on new markets and promotions in the US, Europe, and West Asia last year. Mango exports declined by 11 per cent in 2017-18 to fetch USD 59 million after a staggering 34 perContinue Reading
After 10 years of negotiations, Vietnamese mangoes have officially been licensed to enter the US market. Accordingly, local mango co-operatives in the Southern province of Vinh Long signed deals with Hanoi-based Greeen Path Trading and Import Export JSC to export mango to the US market. This is the sixth fruitContinue Reading
India hopes to ramp up mango exports by 10 per cent to 15 per cent, banking on new markets and promotions in the US, Europe, and West Asia last year. Mango exports declined by 11 per cent in 2017-18 to fetch $59 million after a staggering 34 per centContinue Reading
At their best papayas can create phenomenal eating experiences, but at their worst the fruit can be quite astringent and leave an unpleasant aftertaste. Researchers at Griffith University in the state of Queensland, Australia, have been working for many years to develop varieties that leave a lasting – andContinue Reading
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