Agrico, a well-known Dutch cooperative of more than 1,300 specialist potato growers, has agreed to set up a joint venture with Pune-based potato supply chain organization S.V. Agri to develop high-yield varieties uniquely suitable to India.
Both livestock and Vegetable farmers in some communities in Ghana's Bawku area have started making good use of the dams constructed under the One Village One Dam-policy.
There is a sense of gratitude and joy among the Himachal Pradesh apple growers after a very timely heavy snowfall, considered crucial to the apple crop.
Thailand (population of 69.6 million) is the third largest economy in Southwest Asia and a major exporter of pineapple and cassava, among other things.
In India (population 1.33 billion), the demand for horticultural products will continue to grow due to increasing population growth (50% of the population are under 25), a growing middle class and rapid urbanisation.
Greenhouse pepper producers in the Spanish province of Almeria have broken a production record in the latest campaign, having devoted the largest acreage ever to the crop, according to data provided by the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Government
In the Philippines, Nueva Ecija growers urge the Department of Agriculture to control prices, with produce from abroad expected to flood local markets during harvest season.
The Cabinet Secretary of India’s federal government has urged states to procure the recently imported onions, after a few state governments reported to have withdrawn their demands on arrival of shipments from Turkey and Egypt.
According to the latest Crop and Export Report published by the Asoex' Blueberry Committee, during week 51, the country exported 10,686 tons of blueberries, a higher volume than in the same week of the previous campaign.
Cambodia’s export of yellow bananas to international markets last year reached 157,812 tonnes, most of which was exported to China and the rest to Vietnam and Japan.
