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Maintaining biosecurity with phytosanitary Irradiation
One of Australia's leading contract sterilisation and decontamination processors has highlighted the importance of the country maintaining its fruit fly free areas.
Read full storyData-driven water management in Manjimup
Calculating the value of water for crop, farm and community.
Read full storyGood potential for Australian date industry
Date growers association gives farmers new confidence in emerging industry.
Read full storyControl and management of clearwing borer in persimmons
The APVMA has recently issued a permit for the use of a mating disruption agent for the management of persimmon clearwing borer.
Read full storyFeijoa fruit wins larger slice of market pie
One of South Australia’s few feijoa growers is winding up harvest for the little-known fruit.
Read full storySweet black pomegranate 'Black Candy'
'Black Candy' pomegranate is targeted to premium markets.
Read full storySunraysia produces bumper crop of exotic jujube
Tough year for export with COVID-19 restrictions
Read full storySPC acquires PomLife
SPC is plunging into the world of pomegranates after acquiring PomLife,
Read full storyNew biosecurity resources to help Australian truffle growers
Australian truffle growers can now access a new pest and disease management manual and guide.
Read full storyQuince Market to Record Sturdy Growth by 2018 – 2028
Quince Market Introduction Quince is an unusual fruit which is closely related to apples and pears, with the scientific name Cydonia oblonga. The quince fruit is a native product of the Eurasian area, which includes Uzbekistan, Armenia, Turkey, Hungary, Macedonia, and other nearby regions. On a global scale, the production of quince is around 106,000 acres, with Turkey being one of the top producer growing roughly 26,500 acres of quince. The acreage of quince grown in the U.S. is relatively small, making the fruit a specialty crop. California is the only place in the U.S. which grows quince commercially with around 205 tons of production annually. Quince is primarily known for the presence of high concentration of pectin in it, which further helps to set jellies, pastes, and preserves. In the past few decades, the consumption of quince declined due to the invention of powdered gelatin, but however, it made a comeback with the high-end restaurants which have featured quince as a specialty fruit.
Read full storyHow Australia is shaking up the truffle market
Australia has become the world's fourth-largest producer of the most-prized type of black truffle.
Read full storyQuest for custard apple new varieties a long and difficult road, paved with misfires and mutants
A 25-year quest to produce delicious, commercially successful, new varieties of custard apples is inching closer to completion. But the road has been long and paved with mutants.
Read full storyMajor steps forward for Australian jujube industry
The formalisation of the Australian jujube industry has taken another major step, with the launch of the South Australian Jujube Growers Association Inc.
Read full storyGreat prices for the start of Australian pomegranate season
Exceptional start to Australia's pomegranate season for growers, with large fruit providing some bumper prices given the warmer spring and summer.
Read full storySmall, sweet and high in Vitamin C — Australian growers are backing the jujube
With an increasing international population and a big focus on healthy eating, some Australian horticulturalists are pushing to expand and establish plantings of a fruit barely known to most of the country — the jujube.
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