SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Photographs of mangos as big as soccer balls that were harvested in the department of Santander, Colombia went viral. A local news source said that Liliana Garnica Ruíz has the giant mango crops on her farm and that the fruit was from organic crops that useContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lindi Botha, Farmers Weekly Any crop can be seen as ‘easy’ or ‘difficult’ to cultivate, depending on how you manage it and your yield expectations. This is especially true of mangoes,” says Johann du Preez, general manager of Bavaria Fruit Estates in Hoedspruit, Limpopo. “You can leave mangoes toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal The Queensland Government is offering three elite mango varieties for commercial development that have the potential for domestic and export markets. The varieties were developed under the National Mango Breeding Program, Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner said. “We’re very optimistic about theseContinue Reading
SOURCE: Bindu Gopal Rao, The National News You have to walk on the bund, else your feet and shoes are both going to sink into the mud,” Syed Ghani Khan tells me as I try hard to match his steps while navigating his mango farm on a wet day. IContinue Reading
SOURCE: Samantha Dick and Matt Brann, ABC More than 160 seasonal workers from Vanuatu have landed in Darwin to bolster the Northern Territory’s mango-picking workforce for this year’s harvest. The workers arrived on a chartered flight from Port Vila on Tuesday and will spend the next 14 days at HowardContinue Reading
SOURCE: Surekha Kadapa-Bose, The Better India “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet!” Thus wrote William Shakespeare in his immortal play Romeo and Juliet. What the bard didn’t know is that the farmers of Konkan belt — Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Daily Times For the first time, Pakistan Customs has processed a consignment of export of fresh mangoes (White Chaunsa) from Pakistan to Russia under the Convention on Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR), or International Road Transports. According to a press statement issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) onContinue Reading
SOURCE: Chris Komorek, Fruitnet The Ord Irrigation Scheme, a plan designed to develop part of the nations’ tropical north for intensive irrigated agriculture by harnessing the waters of the Ord River, is set to bring Western Australia’s largest mango orchard back to life. The orchard, formerly known as Galango andContinue Reading
The first China mango industry conference was held in Baise, Guangxi. At the meeting, Tianyang district and Guangzhou Pilot Food Investment Co., Ltd. signed the framework agreement on the comprehensive development and utilization project of fruits in Tianyang District, Baise City (phase II), with a total investment of 500 millionContinue Reading
SOURCE: Freshplaza Empaque Don Jorge I (EDJI) opened this past weekend, ready for the northern regions. EDJI is the hometown packhouse of El Grupo Crespo, Latin America’s largest hydro-thermal packhouse and the home to El Grupo Crespo’s two brands, Crespo Organic and RCF. Originally built by Roberto Crespo Fitch inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Daily Times As mango season has started, producers of the fruit are ready to export the product to the international market with a special focus on the Iranian market for being a close neighbor of the country. Pakistan is the fourth largest mango producer in the world and theContinue Reading
China has taken “special measures” to facilitate the import of quality fresh Cambodian mangoes and expects 100,000 tonnes of the fruit to reach Chinese shores this year, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua Chunying told a regular press conference in the capital.Continue Reading