In marketing year 2019/20 (July – June), Korea’s fresh apple production is projected to increase seven percent to 508,000 tons, mainly due to favorable weather during the flowering and fruit growing seasons.
Nakuru County has introduced a new variety of strawberries from Japan, which is fast maturing, bigger in size and has more weight that the local variety.
The cascading effect of Cyclone Gaja and the crash in price banana has hit banana growers in the Cauvery-irrigated areas of the Thanjavur district as they have been forced to leave the banana bunches on the trees to ripe and rot as the price of the fruit
Scientists at Kangwon National University (Chuncheon, Republic of Korea) have investigated the effect of harvest time on ripening quality of kiwifruit cultivars.
Turkish pomegranate sizes are larger this year than usual. With a couple of months more to go in the season, one exporter is expecting to double its sales this year.
Unseasonal October rainfall damaged over 40% of the vineyards across the district and it is likely to impact export of the produce by around 50% during the current grape season (2019-20).
In the 2018/2019 campaign, more than half of Spanish zucchini exports (54.39%) were shipped to France and Germany at a price close to € 1 / kg, according to data from the Estacom statistical service (Icex-Tax Agency ), using TARIC codes (Tariff Integrated
With the number of Autumn King and Allison packages in cold storage holding in California almost halving between November 15th and 30th, the grand total of grape packages has dropped from 1,013,940 to 557,802 packages.
Kiwifruit consumers in some of Zespri’s key markets will soon be able to enjoy Zespri Red Kiwifruit following a decision from the Zespri Board today to commercialise a red kiwifruit variety for New Zealand growers.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the price of tomatoes has been on the rise since last week, going up from 50,000 rials ($0.41) to 150,000-200,000 rials ($1.23-1.64) per kilogram.
Farmers from Mindanao will soon export mangoes and other agricultural produce to Malaysia and Indonesia as senior officials and ministers among these countries recently agreed to intensify trade beginning early next year.
According to the data of November 20, 2019, the export of Georgian mandarins amounted to 1,658 tons, the Georgian Ministry of Environment and Agriculture stated.
The ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) in Tiruchi will soon evolve a standard protocol for the export of nendran bananas by sea from Kerala to Europe to cater to the ethnic Indian population there.
