FruitsPhulbaria lemon villages expect Tk 95 crore in sales this season
Lemons cover more than 754 hectares in Phulbaria, Mymensingh, this year, and the agriculture office estimates sales of about Tk 95 crore for the season.
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OpinionFruit SA's Nomonde Ntloko: grow today's black fruit farms before adding new ones
In a column for Food For Mzansi, Fruit South Africa's industry affairs manager argues that emerging fruit enterprises need finance, title deeds and a tiered path from grants to credit before the industry brings in new entrants.
FruitsFrom two papaya trees in the yard to a Tk 7.5 lakh surplus: a Gazipur farmer's orchard
Inspired by one or two papaya trees that sprang up by the dung heap in his homestead yard, a Gazipur farmer planted 105 seedlings on 10 decimals; his second planting of 750 left a cash surplus of about Tk 7.5 lakh after costs.
FruitsPassion fruit spreads to the plains; one grower made Tk 3-4 lakh in a year
Anarkali, or passion fruit, is now grown on the plains of Chuadanga, Jhenaidah, Tangail and Panchagarh as well as the hills; a vine fruits for 25 to 30 years, but agriculturists say links to juice and pulp factories are needed to widen the market.
FruitsAt 95, a Barguna farmer runs a papaya orchard and clears Tk 2,000 a week
Rustam Ali, 95, has planted 350 local Shahi papaya trees on about one and a half acres of leased land at Amtali-Nimtali in Barguna Sadar and sells the fruit himself.
FruitsSouth African dragon fruit growers held back by permits, capital costs and weather
Global demand for dragon fruit is rising, but South African producers face high set-up costs, invasive-species permits, wet subtropical summers and shoppers used to bland fruit, growers tell Food for Mzansi.
FruitsGoalanda schoolteacher grows Shahi papaya on two bighas, hopes for Tk 300,000 profit
Primary schoolteacher Zahir Raihan of Goalanda, Rajbari, has planted about 220 Shahi papaya seedlings on two bighas at a cost of about Tk 200,000 and hopes to sell Tk 500,000 worth of fruit.
FruitsApril freezes leave Pennsylvania orchards with few peaches and patchy apples
Most of the state's peaches were lost and cherries and apricots gave little or no crop; apple yields range from about 70% of normal to far less, with jobs and farm markets hit too.
FruitsHybrid papaya in Kapasia: 800 trees expected to yield 40-45 tonnes
Island Agro Farm's growers expect to sell Tk 7-8 lakh of papaya after spending about Tk 2 lakh, with 50-60 kg a tree.
FruitsVietnamese dwarf coconuts: 50-60 nuts a tree with care, losses without it
The Siam Green and Siam Blue coconuts brought in under the year-round fruit project yield well with proper care and water, but farmers who planted and left them have been disappointed.
FruitsBehind Chuadanga's grape harvest, a costly sapling trade and a warning
Saplings from a three-and-a-half-bigha vineyard in Jibannagar sell for Tk 350-400; after losses on 'China orange', farmers warn against rushing in without knowing the variety.
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Malta on leased fallow land: Chatmohar grower expects Tk 4 lakh profit this year
Sharmin Khatun of Hoglabaria village in Chatmohar, Pabna, planted Vietnamese and BARI-1 malta on two bighas of leased fallow land; after a profit of more than Tk 2 lakh last year she expects at least Tk 4 lakh after all costs this season.
Agrotech
Sound sensors and AI to show fruit growers where pollination is falling short
The James Hutton Institute and AgriSound will link bioacoustic pollinator monitoring to fruit set, yield and quality in strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries.