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INTERNATIONAL VIEW - China's stinky-fruit boom is creating big profits – sometimes for unscrupulous traders

Golf Kan's durian farm is located on the outskirts of Chanthaburi, a sleepy hamlet with dusty streets and dingy stores around four hours' drive southeast of Bangkok. Durian trees between 6 and 10 ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Tree fruit industry hopeful China deal will end tariffs

Whether a trade deal with China will reverse the short- and long-term effects of the country’s tariffs on the Northwest tree fruit industry remains to be seen. It could take weeks for the two ...
Daily Mirror

SL’s Fruit Farmers see 300% Yield increase through China Partnership; FAO

A South-South Cooperation initiative between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) of China, the Food and ...
Reuters

China consumers sour as fruit prices soar on weather, trade war

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's consumers are fretting over soaring fruit prices as poor domestic harvests and higher tariffs on U.S. imports take a bite out of supplies. The rising cost of apples, pears ...
China Daily

Kumquats bear fruit for rural county

At her restaurant in Yangshuo county in the southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, bowls of freshly washed kumquats glow ...
Just-Food

China battling with counterfeit fruit as shoppers favour imports

China has a glut of local fruit, yet consumers aspire to imported products. How do you get around this? Why, you label local produce ‘foreign’, and no-one’s any the wiser. Tamara Vantroyen ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Why most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot even though their countries grow the fruit

Rabbinical authorities have long debated the authenticity of Asian etrogs — even though the fruit originated in southwest China. TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rebecca Kanthor, a member of a progressive ...