Plantations

In the northern Vietnamese province Hai Duong has been taking measures to increase sales of lychee. The lychees of the Thanh Ha district will be maturing by the end of May. The district is famous for its lychees. Thanh Ha is currently home to 3,265ha of fruit. It also has 1,700ha that are the first to ripen. Nearly 400ha of the land has been certified to meet VietGAP requirements and 50ha have been certified by GlobaGAP. China remains an important market for Vietnamese fruit lychees. In the coming year, exports of lychees to China faces many obstacles since this country is [...]

VertiFarm is the platform for industry as well as an international exhibition for trade in next-generation agriculture and the development of new food systems is scheduled to take place between September 26-28, between 26 and 28 September 2023 in the Messe Dortmund in Germany and will focus the spotlight on controlled agricultural practices that are environmentally sustainable (CEA). The urgency of a timely rethink on food production is underlined, among other things, by a recent government-commissioned report by the Commission on the Future of Agriculture, which showed that ecological damage to the tune of 90 billion euros is caused each year [...]

After successful field tests of the variety have been concluded The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Department will introduce a higher resistance and longer shelf-life NPS-5 varieties of mushrooms to be used in commercial cultivation in September this year. K.K. Sharma Director for the Department of Agriculture: "Our second strain is named NPS-5 (a type of fungus). We are developing the master cultivar. Seeds will be distributed to farmers in September of the following year (for commercial agriculture within Jammu as well as Kashmir)." The trial, he said, proved success. "It does not suffer from the presence of water in low levels, [...]

Frutura The global sales and marketing platform that was created to supply international clients with top-quality fruits all year round it has signed a license contract to The Coca-Cola Company. It is the first occasion that The Coca-Cola Company has licensed one of their brands to usage in the fresh fruit segment. This agreement allows Frutura to make use of Minute Maid and Simply brands that will only be used in conjunction with Frutura's Dayka & Hackett LLC. Simply is a brand that will be launching in the market as Simply brand will be entering the market in the form of [...]

Kenyan agricultural company Kakuzi will begin harvesting and importing Hass avocados for export to China as well as Europe in the middle of next month, to ensure quality. It is the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) via the Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD) has announced that the 2023 harvesting season for avocados officially started on the 24th March 2023. The agency also warned farmers to avoid harvesting the immature fruits. Kakuzi Plc Managing Director Chris Flowers has said that the company's recent tests on maturity confirm that the company's currently crop that is grown in its Makuyu orchard located in Murang'a County [...]