The blueberry industry is growing in the area where the dryest desert on earth is located.

The Bioinnovation Center is part of the Faculty of Marine Sciences of the University of Antofagasta (CBIA) along with the CBIA, along with a group that included farmers managed to bring together the blueberry plantation project in the region, thanks to their successful efforts regarding the effects of bioalgae on the desert agricultural. The cultivation […]

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Indian authorities decide to inject 100,000 tonnes of onions into the markets for retail

The Indian government has opted to introduce 100,000 tons of onions in the market for retail this month in order to bring down costs. The Secretary of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Rohit Kumar Singh has said that the government realized that retail intervention can be more efficient over the wholesale market. Singh added that […]

“Retailers have to shift to CEA because of the quality and stability of their products”

“What have we seen within what has happened in the North American market is consolidation which is a major trend occurring. Particularly in the vine crop markets, they’ve consolidated to a more traditional business form. Retailers can be heard in the same sentence saying “I would like fresh and local items from a small-scale producer’. […]

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Vietnam The farmers switch to more valuable crops in rice fields

The farmers in Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta province in Dong Thap have switched to cultivating short-term crops as well as evergreen trees, as well as breeding aqua species over 5,000ha paddies. The crop includes fruits, vegetables, watermelon as well as lotus. Other trees comprise mango and jackfruit as well as citrus, lime […]

Blockade strikes vegetable farmers in Bangladesh

Farmers who grow vegetables in Bangladesh are among those worst hit by the blockade that was lifted yesterday, because they could not achieve sufficient sales amid turmoil in the country’s politics. In addition, the price wholesale of vegetable products in the Ishwardi sub-district in Pabna decreased by around 50% in the course of the three-day […]

Colombian police seize 63 kilograms of cocaine buried inside fake pineapples

In the course of a shipment of pineapples expected to be sent to Spain and Spanish authorities Anti-Narcotics Directorate of the Police found 63 kilos of cocaine concealed inside 280 fake fruit. In the report of the police that the discovery took place at the seaport in Cartagena (Bolivar) the city where police conducted an […]