Tamil Nadu farmers have staged a protest at the office of the chief engineer of the public works department, demanding that the relevant authorities declare Tamil Nadu as a drought-hit state.
One of Nova Scotia’s largest cranberry growers has dismissed a new study that shows cranberry capsules don’t appear to reduce urinary tract infections among older women.
Since fair trade bananas were introduced in the Netherlands 20 years ago, the Dutch have eaten one billion of the fruits, the Max Havelaar foundation said on Thursday 27 October.
Apples featuring images of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Francois Hollande were packed in Aomori Prefecture on Thursday 27 October to be shipped as a gift to the French leader and others.
Importer and exporter BanaBay has been in the bananas business for several years and as well as entering new markets this year, they are bringing new products on line.
Argentina will export only 30% of its blueberry production this week, due to the current price drop situation which the global blueberry market is facing, especially in the US market.
On October 22th of 2016, this year's picking season for winter honey peaches, Langya red honey festival, and the first session of the forum on developments in the honey peach industry.
The 2016 season will see the second commercial volumes of the Tawny red seedless grape from South Africa, which will be marketed by Core Fruit and other authorised distributors.
The drought is causing the Primofiori lemon harvest to develop more slowly than usual in the regions of Murcia and Alicante, Spain's most important producing areas of this citrus fruit.
The kiwifruit harvest season has started in Yalova’s Subaşı village, north-western Turkey, which contributes to 60% of the country’s total kiwifruit production.
After one week of harvesting Wonderful variety pomegranates, fresh packed arils are in such high request that Ruby Fresh is already shipping at capacity with three shifts operating seven days a week.
After two weeks of conflict in Michoacán, the region's avocado producers and the State Government agreed on a series of measures that will allow producers to cut and export their fruit.
Since the HLB was detected in the state's lemon crops, production has declined by up to 60 percent, as the annual harvest went from 500,000 tons to less than 200,000 tons.
How to be more competitive in the international markets? That, among other issues, is one of the concerns that the national banana sector discussed in the 13th International Banana Forum, which comes to an end today at the Hilton Colon hotel.
