SOURCE: Eric Weinert, New Food Magazine President of the Hawaiian Papaya Industry Association Eric Weinert explains why the sector has recovered significantly in 2023. This year is shaping up to be a huge boon for Hawaii papaya growers as demand for the only American-grown papaya is increasing among mainland tropicalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Importation of Tainung-variety papayas is going strong this spring. Marketing this variety, which is botanically classified as the Carica papaya, is a year-round opportunity, according to Mirna Skinner, CEO of Wyco Produce, located in Tampa, FL. On April 10, she tells FreshFruitPortal.com that her firm isContinue 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: The Hill Farmers in low-lying regions of Bangladesh are braving rising sea levels by cultivating their crops aboard hand-woven rafts. Faced with inhospitable growing conditions that could threaten their livelihoods, they are adapting to a climate of surging swamp waters by reviving a relic of the country’s past. TheseContinue Reading
SOURCE: Baidu TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Before the harvest in 2022, JD.com released the “2018-2022 Landmark Agricultural Products Upward Trend Report” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”), which sorted out the upward trend characteristics, category structure changes, market trends and distribution, and consumer portraits of landmark agricultural products in various provinces fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Agencia Denoticias TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The results of the research carried out by Ruby Alejandra Loaiza Ruiz, a student of the Master in Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Nacional in Medellin, have become an important step to obtaining the UN Cotové papaya variety. Loaiza Ruiz picked up the work carriedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Antonio L. Colina IV, MindaNews Davao City-based Avante Agri Products Philippines Inc. agricultural company will export two 40-footer container vans of pineapples and papayas to Singapore next week. This came after the company signed a memorandum of agreement with Singaporean buyers during a business mission to Singapore from AugustContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hurriyet Daily News Türkiye’s tropical fruit exports exhibited an 85 percent increase last year from 2020 to amount to $13 million, according to a trade group. In the first half of 2022, exports already reached $7.9 million, said Hayrettin Uçak, the head of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and VegetableContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dr Poonam Batra, Krishi Jagran Black thrips (Thrips parvispinus), a highly polyphagous pest has become a major insect pest in recent days for chili and capsicum crops in India. It is an invasive insect species from Indonesia and was first reported in 2015 on a papaya plantation in Bengaluru,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Jahnavi R, DHNS, Deccan Herald A city-based biotech lab has developed a desi variety of table-top papaya, which lasts up to two weeks, unlike the regular variety. Developed by Thomas Biotech Lab, the papaya variety, christened ‘Dawn Delight’, grows only up to three or four feet and is bestContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Costa Rica News Costa Rican scientists announced this past Wednesday, the launch of three varieties of papaya. These will be delivered to the country’s producers so they can start planting. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) pointed out that, thanks to the genetic modifications that the TicosContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pauline Kairu, The East African Kenya has stepped up the use of the encyrtid wasp to manage the papaya mealybug, which is ranked among top pests affecting papaya and other horticultural crops. The mealybug is also a serious threat to greenhouse farms and can devastate whole crops if leftContinue Reading