In its weekly report, the Ministry of Agriculture (MAG) stated that the harvest of vegetables for September was guaranteed with 120,082 quintals of tomato, taking into account the monthly consumption plan of Nicaraguans.
The president of the Regional Union of Producers of Plantain, Francisco Hueso Alcaraz, said that thanks to the strategic location of the port of Manzanillo, producers were focused on exporting to the Asian market.
While many fruit production areas in China enjoyed an abundant harvest this year, the kiwifruit plantations in south China suffered from extreme weather conditions, in particular the cold snap that plagued China in April.
The pineapple producers from the south of Ciego de Avila have more than 600 hectares devoted to this product and continue to increase the area of one of the main Cuban projects for the markets, industry, and exports.
Ecuador expects to export 5,700 boxes of mango by boat to China on the first week of October; a country where, after thirteen years of negotiations, 20,000 boxes of this fruit first arrived in 2016 by air.
Russia’s phytosanitary watchdog inspected a batch of fresh tomatoes, ostensibly from the Republic of Belarus at the Doloscy-1 plant quarantine station in the Pskov region.
For 66% of British consumers organic means natural, according to GlobalData’s global consumer survey from 2017 Q4, but this does not necessarily encourage consumers to actively purchase organic products.
