Agricultural exports from India will increase in 2024 irrespective of price and export curbs on onions, rice, wheat and sugar. This is per a trade ministry’s statement on January 8, 2024. Trade minister, Piyush Goyal said that India’s agricultural exports reached $53 billion in the 2022/23 fiscal period and will improve in 2024. The expected boon for the 2023/24 period may, however, lose $4 billion, according to...
Deer harvest ends in Michigan on a low note
Michigan’s deer hunting season ended January 6, 2024 with a year-on-year decrement of 11% in harvested game. Around 590,000 hunters participated in the 2023 firearm deer meat harvest and bagged some 273,775 deer. In comparison, hunters in 2022 fell 303,082 antlered, whitetail and other deer species. The decline for 2023 occurred mostly in Upper Peninsula, an elevated forested area on the U.S.-Michigan border. Here, the harvest...
Mexico’s 2023 mango harvest eclipses 2022 production
Mexico’s mango farmers overcame the El Niño and drought to harvest a record 2.23 million tonnes, 0.03% more than 2022’s. The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (Sader) stated that the momentous harvest also dwarfed that of 10 years ago by 39%. Back in 2013, the count had peaked at 1.604 million mangoes. This 2023 harvest had also a slim edge of 0.18%...
USDA and Ohio bequeath farmers $12.4 million to improve food supply chain
Small and medium-size farming enterprises in Ohio will receive $12.4 million from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Ohio’s government. The amount will go into the state’s food supply chain. Announcing this program on January 2, 2024, Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Director, Brian Baldridge cited an intention to invest in producers. At the same time, Ohio’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI)...
Green banana flour market to surpass $1 billion by 2030 thanks to preference for gluten-free nutrition
Consumer preference for gluten-free meals will push the green banana flour industry to a $1.026 billion value by 2030. This is according to Future Market Insights research. Green banana flour comes from immature Musa bananas such as Cavendish, which grow from India to Africa and Latin America. The current high demand for this flour owes to an increasing consumer choice for natural products. This preference...
Ginseng root extracts supplant antibiotics in chronic bronchitis treatment
Ginseng roots, a key source of herbal supplements have lately attracted researchers studying pulmonary diseases. One such study in Italy on chronic bronchitis has revealed that ginseng root extracts may eradicate pulmonary bacteria infections. A January 5, 2024 report details how a ginseng extract trademarked as G115 brought anti-bacterial relief to patients in 6 days. This in comparison with those who took only antibiotics who recovered...
UK couple recreates an 1805 nature farm
Newts, hummingbirds and woods vie with hay, cattle and sheep on a nature farm recreating 1805 conditions in Northumberland, UK. The 440 acres at Middleton North estate have come a long way before reclaiming their former environmental glory. Charlotte and Charlie Bennett started revamping this north-east England Northumberland farm as late as 2019. That same year, southeastern England’s famous Newbury agricultural show was...
Canada’s Canso fisheries land 500 Atlantic bluefin tunas
Canso fisheries on the North-eastern coast of Nova Scotia in Canada have reported a boom in the fabled Atlantic bluefin tuna. Ginny Boudreau, manager of the Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen Association said Canso fishermen landed “500 fish” by December, 2023. This number comes as a boon considering that in 2022 the figure was 20% less. The elated fishermen also call this...
Brazil leap-frogs to the 9th position of global economies thanks to agriculture
Brazil was the ninth largest economy in the world in 2023, per the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s projections of December 19, 2023. A strong Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 3.1%, buoyed by agriculture helped the nation leap-frog from the 11th position. At the end of 2023, Brazil’s economists were expecting a GDP grossing of $2.13 trillion. Now they are celebrating the...
Morocco beats weather odds, heading for a 60,000-ton avocado harvest
Blessed with a mild climate, Northwestern Morocco which constitutes such regions as Gharb and Larache is expecting to harvest 60,000 tonnes of avocados. The harvest follows on the heels of a long-term drought that hit most of Morocco in 2023. Unlike the Sahel region, however, the north experiences rainfall of up to 98 mm in the wettest month of November. According to...