PHILIPPINES: Demand for fruit-based processed food products on the rise in Europe
2021-01-28
Healthier lifestyles and less sugar consumption in Europe create opportunities for Philippine fruit-based processed food.Continue Reading
CHINA: 400M middle-class sector ‘promising market’ for PH goods
2020-12-21
The 400-million strong middle-class group in China is a promising export market and the “next biggest opportunity” just waiting to be tapped by Filipino enterprises, according to a Beijing-based trade expert. In the wake of years of high economic growth, there is now a large middle-income class of around 400Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Japan seen to wrest back top banana importer status
2020-11-24
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror JAPAN is poised to overtake China as the Philippines’s top banana export market this year as total purchase by Japan ending September grew 8.8 percent on the back of firmer consumer demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) trade data showedContinue Reading
PHILIPPINES: UPLB researchers find indigenous fruits rich in antioxidants
2020-11-24
SOURCE: Dhel Nazario, Manila Bulletin Fruits indigenous to the country have been found to be rich in antioxidants by researchers from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. These fruits – as-is, binukaw, kamansi, kolong-kolong, niyog-niyogan, paho, sampinit, pili, and bignay – have been confirmed by chemists from UPLB toContinue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Mindanao eyes more avocado
2020-11-16
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has identified new potential growing regions for Hass avocado as it looks to capitalise on demand in China and offset deforestation. In a statement Emmanuel Piñol, secretary of MinDA, said eight areas had expressed interest in the agency’s environmental farming programme,Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Pineapple, watermelon growers post record ROI
2020-10-09
SOURCE: Madelaine B. Miraflor, Manila Bulletin Pineapple and watermelon are currently the most profitable fruit commodities in the Philippines with growers posting record high return of investments (ROI) of 377 percent and 220 percent, respectively among other fruit growers in 2019. This is based on the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA)Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Banana industry needs to diversify
2020-10-05
SOURCE: The Philippine Star The country’s largest business group, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), is calling on the government to diversify the local banana industry in order to keep up with an increasingly competitive global market. In a webinar organized by the Stratbase ADR Institute on Wednesday,Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Dole PH lays off 500 workers
2020-10-05
Source: Joseph Jubelag, Manila Bulletin Some 500 workers of Dole Philippines Inc., a fruit processing firm in Polomolok, South Cotabato, lost their jobs after the company implemented its retrenchment program amid the economic slump brought about by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Jeremiah Mari Diana, the company’s corporate communications supervisor,Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Country may lose in banana export war
2020-09-25
The Philippines may lose in the banana export war amid continued stiff competition in the global market, prompting the government to allocate some P263 million to save the local banana industry.Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Banana exporters may lose big China market to Vietnam
2020-07-22
Philippines, one of the most badly hit countries by COVID-19 pandemic across Asia, may see a decline in banana exports moving forward, thanks to the government’s failure to contain the deadly and highly contagious virus.Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Banana production down by 20% due to Fusarium wilt
2020-07-13
A different pandemic is hounding the local banana industry, which already saw production this year cut by as much as 20 percent.Continue Reading
PHILIPPINES: Zambales mango trade sours amid pandemic
2020-05-18
Before panic over the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) gripped the country, mobile workers in the mango industry could hop from one town to another armed with fruit-inducing chemicals, pesticides, sprayers, ladders and bundles of old newspapers.Continue Reading