Sugarcane farmers from northern Karnataka in southwest India are seeking price advantage by selling their cane to mills in neighboring Maharashtra. Maharashtra is offering as high as 3,500 rupees ($39.66) per tonne of cane including transportation costs, drawing cross-state farmers. Even so, growers are readying to protest on October 30, 2025 at Belgavi to agitate...
A new not-for-profit banana trade body, the Banana Association of North America (BANA), intends to create awareness for this cheapest healthy fruit. Due to affordability, the humble peeled fruit sates the appetites of millions of North Americans each year. The United States tops consumption volumes worldwide at 3.722 million tonnes (2022) while Canada utilizes 0.518 million tonnes...
Kozushima hamlet on Izu Islands near Tokyo has embraced sturgeon aquaculture for caviar production after spiny lobster landings dropped to a handful. In 1986 when commercial caviar farming was in its infancy in Japan, Kozushima was producing 23,000 kg of spiny lobster. But by 2023, the catch had slashed by 98%, to 400 kg due...
Senegal expects a 2025-26 rebound in corn production following a 2024 output decline, cited the Interprofessional Maïs (IMAIS) on October 25, 2025. The gains owe to uptick acreage in the leading regions of Kaolack, Kédougou and Kolda, where the IMAIS “expect(s) good yields.” Although the agency did not specify production or acreage increases, it nevertheless...
The Philippines has signed a working plan with Peru to officially import Hass avocados from the South American country for the first time. In a statement on October 25, 2025, the Philippines’ Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) championed the exchange with Peru’s agricultural health department. The BPI said that the working framework will first target...
Toxic algal bloom toll on marine fish and business activity has prompted South Australia (SA)’s government to selectively ban commercial fishing. The month-long moratorium starts November 1, 2025 on the popular Gulf St. Vincent and Kangaroo Island fisheries, to replenish stock. Commercial bluecrab and scalefish fishing in these two areas will also remain indefinitely suspended till June 30,...
Longan (dimocarpus longan) producers in Chom Thong district of Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand have attracted disaster help from Land Bank. According to Thairath newspaper on October 24, 2025, deputy Prime Minister Sophon Sarun advised the banking agency to support farmers on land issues. Land Bank first focused on land/disaster issues facing the district’s Ban Huay Muang...
South Africa on October 22, 2025 officially resumed shipping maize from local ports to Zimbabwe after Harare lifted an import ban. The Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen stated that the removal of the moratorium boosts regional food security and bilateral trade. This follows the invoking of Statutory Instrument 87 (2025), which automatically opened the Zim market...
The 2025 Honshu island’s autumn harvest of the specialty Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai), especially Housoi, is returning moderate volumes but sweet taste profiles. In Tochigi Prefecture 100 km north of Tokyo, Utsunomiya City’s Nikkori pear harvest had reached its peak by October 20, 2025. So far, fruit size of this cross between Niitaka/Shinko and Housoi is proving smaller...
There maybe only four states producing sugarcane in the United States, but Coca-Cola is going ahead with distributing Coke made from domestic cane sugar. The Atlanta-based multinational has already begun stocking select locales with soda made from U.S.’ cane sugar despite raw material shortage. Coca-Cola’s quarterly earnings already reveal progress towards that goal because health-conscious...