The new Belluni banana has been undergoing tests for 15 years and is now hitting the market. The product is resistant to pests and has more nutritional qualities.
There’s a reported 18-million box crop for the northwest pear industry “which is flat from last year. It’s a very promotable crop,” said Brianna Shales of Stemilt Growers.
Bananas on European supermarket shelves will have travelled half way round the world, tightly packed in containers, stacked high on gargantuan cargo ships.
Europe is the second largest producer of pears, only behind China. For the season 2016/2017, the EU's production is estimated at 2.3 million tonnes, down 8 percent from the previous year.
After years of preparations and numerous inspections, the Chinese AQSIQ has officially announced that fresh Polish apples are allowed for import to China.
Citrus experts in Pakistan have said that exporting seedless kinnow can be the most profitable way to sell the citrus fruit, due to its high demand across the globe.
The Arkhangelsk Oblast of the Russian Federation is looking to increase trade with Azerbaijan, and has already started making efforts in this direction.
The Syrian Government has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Economy and Domestic Trade to allow the import of bananas from Lebanon in exchange for the export of citrus.
A California company is developing a vacuum apple harvester which has shown that it can see the apples, pick them from the tree and do so without causing significant damage to either, at a picking rate of faster than one apple per second.
