There are a lot of expectations for the International Asparagus Days (Cesena, October 16-18, 2018), an event intended to take stock of the technical, production and business situation of this vegetable.
Given the expansion of the acreage and the ideal weather conditions recorded in the main producing regions of Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga, South Africa expects its citrus production to increase this season.
According to the Big Data from the China Business Research Institute, the import volume of Chinese bananas (including plantains) in May 2018 was 172,429 tons, which was a year-on-year increase of 73.8%.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture of the Davao Region will continue training banana farmers who received GCTCV 218 banana seedlings in good agricultural practices.
Yucatan will have a plant with the necessary technology to process habanero peppers to obtain the capsaicin molecule, which will be used by the pharmaceutical industry and will give an added value to the production of this vegetable.
The South Vietnamese province of Dong Thap, the largest mango producer in the Mekong Delta with 9,200 hectares and an annual production of almost 100 thousand tons, intends to turn this fruit into a key export product by 2020.
Paul Gonzalez, the president of the Machala Agricultural Center, said producers were prepared to face the cold season that has been affecting banana production in El Oro for a few days.
The 2018 Chinese Fresh Product Brand Industry Summit Meeting (Guangxi) and Dragon Fruit Brand Alliance News Conference took place in Nanning City, Guangxi, on June 23rd.
