According to representatives of the sector, after last year's results, this year producing and marketing companies are betting on new markets and making more investments to achieve a high profitability.
According to Muhammad Nawaz Maiken, director of Citrus Research Institute Sargodha (CRIS), kinnow growers are facing problems due to the recent rains and uncertain weather conditions.
According to Beijing News, cherries were trending in the fruit market during Chinese Spring Festival [February 5th, 2019], but the price of mangosteens, unexpectedly dropped by more than 50% from 360 yuan [53.20 USD] per 5 kg to 150 yuan [22.17].
A tiny insect, no bigger than the head of a pin, is threatening to topple the multibillion-dollar citrus industry in the U.S. by infecting millions of acres of orchards with an incurable bacterium called citrus greening disease.
Indian grapes seem to have hit the sweet spot in the world markets, with the country's exports in 2018-19 (Apr-Mar) likely to top the 200,000-ton mark for the first time and touch a record high of around 215,000 tons.
3,000 boxes of bananas with the Panama Exports brand were sent on Monday, February 11, to California, USA, as part of the banana reactivation in Baru, in the province of Chiriqui.
The Vietnamese agricultural industry and the Agricultural Product Processing and Market Development Bureau, part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, predict that in 2019 Vietnamese food products will meet with the strict requirements of
China Southern Airlines flight CZ8358 landed on Shenyang Taoxian International Airport on February 3rd, 2019, with the first shipment of imported fruit to enter through the designated imported fruit port at Shenyang Airport.
After Northern Tasmania’s fruit fly free status was recognised, fruit from this region is on its way to Japan again, Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said Japan had accepted evidence that fruit flies had been eradicated in Northern Tasmanian.
