RISING demand for lentils from around the world has helped push this year’s South Australian lentil crop to a record 189,000 tonnes worth close to $250 million. The latest Australian Crop Report made the optimistic lentil forecast yesterday with South...
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Australian fruit exporters will soon enjoy improved access to the Thailand market after revised import protocols were finalized. Assistant Agriculture Minister Senator Anne Ruston, said the new conditions would make Thailand even more attractive for Australian exporters. “Fruit exports often...
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Mango growers in Western Australia's north are experiencing one of their hardest seasons on record, with fruit production down by 50 per cent. In the Kimberley, growers have seen a lacklustre season due, in part, to a split flowering this...
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Australian dried fruit growers are hopeful a reduction in global sultana production will stabilise domestic prices. Drought in the United States and frost and hail damage in Turkey has led to an eight per cent drop in the international sultana...
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As world leaders meet in Paris to set a target to reduce carbon emissions, scientists and farmers fear even the ambitious aim of limiting global warming to two degrees would have huge impacts on Australian farm production, leading to more...
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Australia's only irradiation facility with approval for exports to the United States is ready for its first big season of mango deliveries. Irradiation is a technique used to sterilise fruit fly and other insects before products are exported. Brisbane company...
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Lobby group Voice of Horticulture says growers should have more of a say in the running of the industry's research and marketing body Horticulture Innovation Australia (HIA). It comes as the first AGM for HIA got underway in Sydney, 12...
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A leading Tasmanian vegetable grower has said confidence in the industry may be much worse than the latest AUSVEG survey has shown. Results from AUSVEG’S latest survey showed grower confidence in the vegetable industry had declined by 3.5 per cent during July...
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AUSTRALIAN citrus and grape exports to Vietnam are back on the table, following a seven-month suspension. The Vietnamese government stopped issuing import permits for fresh Australian fruit from January 1 this year and sought advice regarding Australia’s management of Mediterranean...
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Australian Horticultural Exporters Association (AHEA) is a national peak association formed to promote the development of the export and import of fresh horticultural resources. AHEA’s Board and Members are representative stakeholders across the horticulture industry. Background: Australian Horticulture Industry Exports...
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AUSVEG’S latest survey has shown a 3.5 per cent dip in confidence among growers, during the July to September quarter. The Grower Confidence Survey involves a selection of ten questions relating to how confident growers feel about key economic indicators,...
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India, historically an occasional sugar importer in bulk, will remain an exporter the "next few years at least", thanks to the enthusiasm among farmers for growing cane – a factor which has ended the country's notorious sugar cycle too. Historically, India,...
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