On a farm tucked under a lush Waimanalo mountainside, Sean Anderson tends passion fruit, kale and salad greens — using only what nature provides. He creates his own compost and fertilizers and doesn’t use chemicals. But he’s not certified as an organic farmer because the cost is too high. “The margins on...
The extreme temperatures and the absence of moisture in the air have badly hit the mango farms...
Zimbabwe’s banana market could face an oversupply after leading producers stopped exports to South Africa, the country’s...
Sunfruit Orchards are taking the fruit grown from their trees on their plantings in Ohaupo to customers...
BECAUSE of faulty policies and bureaucracy there is a threat that companies like juice maker KEAN will have to shut down, DISY president Averof Neophytou said on Friday after touring the company’s premises in Limassol. However, he praised the company “that confirms my view that Cyprus has a future. It can equally...
November 15, 2015 – Key Technology introduces the all-new VERYX™ digital sorting platform to the European food...
Through genomic sequencing of the pineapple, scientists are learning how the tropical citrus fruit can survive even in the most water-starved environments. A team of scientists has unlocked the genetic secrets of the pineapple in a bid to understand how this exceptional fruit works – and it could lead to a few...
A field near harvest time at Meyers Farm in Bethel, Alaska, can now grow crops like cabbage outside in the ground, due to rising temperatures.i A field near harvest time at Meyers Farm in Bethel, Alaska, can now grow crops like cabbage outside in the ground, due to rising temperatures. We’ve heard...
Nearly 100 people listened as a speaker described how to massively increase Alabama’s farm production and pump millions into the state economy, while helping to fill the produce demand left by a water-starved California. Farmers from across the state were sprinkled through the crowd. Food distributors sat next to university officials and...
In an industry newsletter of October 27, the South African Table Grape Industry (SATGI), Paarl, informed about another rise in the nation’s table grape production . In the crop year 2013/14 the industry brought 50 million cartons of 4.5 kg to the market; for 2015/16 the estimate of SATGI according...
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