Plantations International

Binaya Srikanta Pradhan, the Indian High Commissioner, said on the eve of yesterday that India is prepared to purchase as much avocado as it is readily available in Tanzania. He spoke during a meeting of stakeholders on trade in agricultural products held by the Mbeya Region branch of the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA). Indian importers have been growing the amount of imported goods of Tanzania's avocados and this opened the door to opportunities for Tanzania Agribusiness and farmers the agribusinesses, he added. The envoy recommended that farmers are able to produce high quality avocados since there's an [...]

The arrival of a large quantity of grapes in wholesale has helped bring prices down for the retail market. The grapes are sold between the price of Rs 30 and fifty per kilogram in the retail market. The season for grapes is advancing towards their maximum. However, this year's beginning of grapes took place a tiny amount because of the rain that was unseasonal on the growing regions during the months of October through November. In the present, 50-60 vehicles loaded with grapes have arrived at the market. Based on reports from the APMC Vashi administration, around 820 tons of wine [...]

Evidently, it's time for an additional shopping trend: Avo-cat. In the summer of last year, Canadians wouldn't stop quaking in awe of the Duckana figurines available in London Drugs locations. But, those who do not appear to have much else to be doing and have decided to go for what's next which is a sculpture of a cat and an avocado. Image: Reddit.com Many Reddit threads were created to help spread awareness of the sculpture. Source: dailyhive.com Photo Source: Reddit.com

The most awaited season for fruit is in full swing throughout South Africa, with 12 million containers of apples packaged and shipped. The export season for apples is about a third complete. Nine million boxes of pears are packed up, which is just half the volume estimated. The estimations for both the pears and apples are consistently lowered since the initial estimates were made during the first week of the season due to inclement weather conditions and damage to crops. Apples' current estimate is down by 7% over last year's, following the initial estimate of an increase of 6% in 2022's [...]

The first ship to transport South African grapefruit to Japan arrived at the Port of Durban the weekend before, one or two weeks ahead of the normal schedule. "Usually the grapefruit we get would be ripe in June at the beginning of June. However, this year's is expected to arrive a little later," says an exporter. Hoedspruit began its harvest of grapefruit earlier. They usually begin following Easter, but this year, since the start of April, grapefruit were ripe. In week 14 1.3 million grapefruit cartons were packed. 61% were shipped to European Union, 17% to Asia (32 percent last year [...]

Evidently, fake images which appear to depict the shape of grapes in a star have been circulated on the internet for a long time. Some internet users have been led to think they're a real fruit grown in Japan. However, experts from the viticulture industry claimed there was no things as grapes with star shapes and AFP has found a number of videos showing how to make the images by using editing software. The photos that were doctored were posted via a post on Facebook that claimed they were "a brand new grape variety" which was introduced in Japan. They were, [...]