After exporting mangoes to Germany last year, Andhra Pradesh is all set to take another leap by exporting ladies' fingers (also know as okra) to Europe.
Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Sahibzada Mehboob Sultan has announced that Pakistan’s fruit exporters can target two new international markets – the Philippines and China – this year for citrus shipments.
While India has shipped its first consignment of grapes to China to mark the beginning of the bumper season 2019, the potential of exporting to the newly opened market, Australia, looks grim due to geographical disadvantages.
Eduardo Ledesma, the Executive Director of the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE), spoke about the most fundamental aspects that will affect the banana sector in 2019.
As of yesterday, Japanese farmers have to compete with cheaper agricultural products imported from New Zealand and Australia as the first tariff cuts under the re-jigged Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have taken effect.
Thanks to the research of Subodh Kumar Sarkar of Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), black garlic can now be produced in Bangladesh. It is widely used for health reasons.
Although the harvest was delayed in the third quarter and this affected figures of the final quarter of the fiscal year, Limoneira reports a larger turnover in fiscal year 2018.
Peruvian banana exports between January and November of this year amounted to US $152,831,930, i.e. 14.1% more than the US $133,938,437 achieved in the same months of 2017.
During the constitutive General Assembly of the national banana trade in Senegal, Tidiane Sidibé, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Equipment, declared that the government had released 2.5 billion francs CFA [4.3 million USD] this ye
