Banana growers in Cyprus' Paphos district are experiencing constraints due to water supply disruptions following the draining of the Mavrokolympos reservoir. This action was taken to address a ...

Fresh Del Monte Chairman and CEO Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh has been warning of a global shortage in banana production for some time — a shortage he says has been caused by shifting climate patterns and ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild subspecies of the fruit. In a valuable step forward for banana breeding ...

A stroll around the Imenti area in Meru reveals swathes of lush green farms where banana plantations are flourishing alongside the region's traditional crop, miraa (khat). As farmers increasingly ...

Two decades ago, Ambika Prasad Adhikari, a local of Ratnanagar-13, started growing bananas on his 14 bighas of land with a Rs 700,000 loan. When he started, there was no demand for this fruit. But he ...

This is the fungus responsible for Panama disease. Some of you may be familiar with this, but I'm guessing that this will be news for a lot of you. Panama disease is a threat to the continued ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 7, 2024) Organic banana production is significantly more conducive to microbial decomposition than its chemical-intensive counterparts in the Caribbean nation of ...

Several members of the banana-growing community in Colombia’s Magdalena region pose with representatives of the Building Dreams partnership. More than 300 banana-farming families in Colombia’s ...

A $33 million downtown Fort Lauderdale lot sprouted 1,000 banana plants — and a tax fight with Broward County.

Surat (Gujarat), May 28 (PTI) When the father of a young farmer from Surat succumbed to cancer after years of using chemical fertilisers and pesticides, it left a deep impact on him and he decided to ...