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Mango industry discovers highly infectious bacteria as cause of ugly veins of resin canal discolouration

Mangoes Disease & weed control March 20, 2019



Scientists have worked out what causes ugly veins to appear in mangoes — a breakthrough that could save the industry millions of dollars each year.

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'Nude' shopping next big trend

Avocado Cherries Citrus Mangoes Pome fruit Marketing & export Feb. 27, 2019



But keep your clothes on....’food in the nude’ means beginning of the end for plastic in supermarkets.

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Mango marathon nears finish line as industry produces its second largest harvest on record

Mangoes Feb. 20, 2019



There are only a few weeks left to buy mangoes at the supermarket before the national harvest draws to a close. While the official numbers will not be available for another few months, the mango industry is confident that it has produced its second biggest crop on record. "It's looking like we'll produce in excess of 10 million trays," Robert Gray said, chief executive of Australian Mango Industry Association.

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Getting a sweet return on mangoes

Mangoes Feb. 10, 2019



A suite of five ACIAR small research activities (SRAs) is bringing together mango supply chain stakeholders and researchers from seven countries in a mango agribusiness program designed to understand the lucrative Chinese mango market and improve livelihoods for smallholder mango producers.

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Scholar has post-harvest covered in tree crops

Mangoes Pome fruit Post harvest Jan. 21, 2019



Australia grows some of the best quality fruit in the world, with $200 million worth of Australian oranges and mandarins sent each year to destinations including Japan, Hong Kong, China and the USA.

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Specialty Honey Gold mango harvest underway

Mangoes Nov. 23, 2018



The annual Honey Gold mango harvest is underway in the Northern Territory with the first fruit of Piñata Farms' own variety, already arriving in stores.

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Pinata Farms research project combats under skin browning

Mangoes Nov. 7, 2018



What started as a small project to grow better-looking fruit has ended in a fundamental shake-up of Pinata Farms' mango business.

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Horticulture’s quiet achiever

Mangoes Pome fruit Stone Fruit Disease & weed control Oct. 30, 2018



Polyram DF, the Group M3 fungicide from BASF, is one of horticulture’s great crop protection all-rounders. It is registered to control over twenty diseases across a wide variety of crops, including pome and stone fruit, mangoes, bananas, grapes and most commercially produced vegetables.

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Expansion into Mahachanok mangoes pays off with huge harvest and high demand

Mangoes Oct. 29, 2018



A Top End mango grower says their decision to invest in Mahachanok mangoes is paying dividends, with the trees producing 50 per cent more fruit than any other varieties. Tou Saramat Ruchkaew owns the breeding rights for the Thai mango variety in Australia and has spent the past few years expanding her orchard with only that variety. Some of those trees were harvested for the first time this year.

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New varieties flesh out mango offering

Mangoes Oct. 24, 2018



Mango harvest has started in the Ord Valley as packing houses pump out boxes of fruit to be delivered to markets across Australia.

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Mangoes hit the shops in ‘extra flavoursome’ season

Mangoes Oct. 19, 2018



Tropical mango madness is taking hold, with fruit as cheap as $1 and claims that this year’s crop could be the tastiest on record.

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How to double your mango tree yields

Mangoes Oct. 17, 2018



A NEW trial could see mangoes grown in an alternative way around the country. The project will look at methods to potentially double the per-hectare productivity on mango farms.

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Mango peel could help clean up oil contamination

Mangoes Sept. 27, 2018



Mango peel could be used to break down oil sludge, according to new research.

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Mango season heats up in Northern Territory

Mangoes Sept. 21, 2018



The mango season is ramping up in the Northern Territory with growers sending thousands of trays to markets around Australia.

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New project to transform future of north’s mango industry

Mangoes Sept. 18, 2018

A new project promising to transform the productivity and profitability of the north Australian mango industry, has been unveiled at a meeting of the north’s top producers in the Burdekin.

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