Confirmation of another record season

The harvest of the world’s number one producer should approach 2.3 million tonnes for 2019-20, according to the USDA; a figure up by approximately 8 % on 2018-19. This is a new record! In the space of five years, Mexican production has increased by mo...

Production shortfall and reinforced sanitary controls for the 2019-20 campaign

Production across all citruses should be down by 20 % on the 2019 season. The potential for the 2019-20 campaign is set to be approximately 340 000 tonnes, 17 % below the four-year average. The production shortfall should be particularly marked for th...

Towards Resistant Dessert Banana Varieties For Sustainability - Una iniciativa propuesta por el Cirad

¿Y si la llegada de la Fusariosis TR4 en 2019 a América Latina fuera el origen de una nueva era del sector del banano? Actualmente la industria es consciente del peligro que corre, algo inimaginable hace algunos meses siquiera. El carácter incurable d...

Towards Resistant Dessert Banana Varieties For Sustainability

What if the arrival of TR4 Fusarium Wilt in 2019 in Latin America was the starting point of a reinvention of the dessert banana sector? The industries have now realised that they were threatened by a danger that was unimaginable a few months before. T...

The near-disappearance of Benin as an origin, or when the road to hell is paved with good intentions

The Benin pineapple industry is still struggling to recover from the decision taken by the Beninese authorities in December 2016 to ban all coloured pineapple exports, which led to the origin’s nine-month absence from a niche which it had seemingly ma...