A Department of Agriculture (DA) official announced Wednesday that a P150-million project to boost Bicol’s pili nut industry is set to be launched. Jose Dayao, DA Executive Director for Bicol, in a report to Agriculture Sec. Arthur Yap,…

Vietnam earned 104 million USD from exporting 23,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in the first two months of the year, a rise of 6 percent in value and 12 percent in volume over the same period last year.

The hazelnut production estimate for MY 2008 has been revised upward to a record 840,000 MT based on information from producers and other industry sources. Total MY 2009 production is forecast to be less than the MY 2008 level.

Damage to emerging nutlets from freezing temperatures March 9-10 was estimated this week at up to 80 percent in some south and central San Joaquin Valley almond groves.Growers and field men are still evaluating the damage…

An adroit lobbying campaign has cracked open the bountiful Israeli market for San Joaquin Valley pistachios. It took many years, false starts and dead ends, all in the shadow of the fraught relationship between the United States and Iran.

Peanut prices received by farmers for all farmer stock peanuts averaged 25.4 cents per pound for the week ending March 14. The price per pound decreased 0.7 cent from the previous week. Marketings of all farmer stock peanuts for the week ending March 14 totaled 107 million pounds…

The Turkish raisin cooperative union, TARIS, has announced that is 30 percent higher than the previous season’s. the total harvest 310,000 tons. Grade nine raisin prices decreased to 1.475 YTL.support in order to purchase surplus supply from the market.

Le gouvernement Turc n’ayant plus communiqué sur sa politique de revente de noisettes, les effets de l’annonce de fin février commencent à s’estomper. On revient donc à la réalité du marché : le manque de disponibilité du à la rareté des arrivages de la campagne

This year’s almond crop may be lighter by at least 50 million pounds after a surprise cold snap damaged nuts throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Dave Baker, director of member relations at Sacramento-based Blue Diamond Growers,

There is a shortage of organic raisin growers, and a demand for organic raisins, according to S. Vasquez, University of California Cooperative Extension viticulture farm advisor for Fresno. Raising organic raisins can be a real challenge,…

Cashew kernel exports from the country have shown a robust growth in the current financial year, thanks to a nearly 40 per cent jump in the unit value realisation and shortage in major producing countries such as Brazil, Vietnam and East African.

As much as 50 million pounds of almonds may have been lost to frost in the San Joaquin Valley, the California Farm Bureau Federation says.Freezing temperatures damaged almond nutlets in over a wide area last week. “There’s thousands of acres.

Short supply of cashew kernels in major growing countries in Africa, due to reported drop in crop coupled with depreciation of rupee against dollar, appears to have pushed up the prices of raw cashew imported by the Indian cashew processing…

Exports of cashew kernels during February dipped by 4.5 per cent to 7,968 tonnes as the recession hit countries stressed more on essential commodities compared with the wonder nut, which is considered as a luxury item. During February,…

Cashew producers and processors of Orissa, one of the largest cashew producing states in India, have asked for concrete steps and facilities to improve export of processed nuts from the state. Rajendra Sabat, president of Orissa Cashew Processors’ Association, said that although Orissa…

Southeast peanut producers were urged at a recent growers meeting in Alabama to cut production by at least 20 percent in 2009, to combat oversupply, the agriculture journal Southeast Farm Press reported Monday. Researchers from the National…

Vietnam, the world’s biggest cashew nut exporter, expects a 10 percent decline in overseas shipments this year because of lower demand amid the global recession. Export of the nut, which accounted for 11 percent of total agricultural exports,…

A federal judge Monday upheld requirements that raw California almonds be treated to protect consumers from salmonella poisoning. In a blow to organic almond producers and handlers, the Washington, D.C.-based judge rejected challenges to…