New Zealand may be in the midst of its latest food-related crisis, with a Countdown supermarket in Ponsonby telling customers there may be limited banana stocks for the next two weeks.
Although Ecuador was not affected by the El Niño phenomenon, the current weather conditions have caused a drop in the productivity and availability of bananas from local producers.
The second half of the 2015 apple season witnesses sharp decrease in apple prices. Prices came down in February and have struggled to gain grounds since then.
Over the past couple of years Amorita has been gaining significant recognition across the US, New Zealand, China, the Middle East and parts of Europe as a premium banana brand.
Over the last decade, the growth of Poland's apple production has had no match in any other EU country, as reported to "Rzeczpospolita" by Mariusz Dziwulski, economist at BNP BGZ Paribas Bank.
Luis Loor, President of the National Federation of Ecuadorean plantain producers (Fenaprope), stated that the price of a box of plantains for export had rebounded in the last three weeks because of the low production there was in summer.
In Kozhikode, the Kudumbashree mission will set up special outlets through the Community Development Societies (CDSs) to sell organic vegetables during the onam festival season.
