Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!
永远也不要把你的香蕉放在冰箱里!!!
A green banana is not ripe enough to eat.
青香蕉没成熟,不能吃。
She threw the banana peel into the trash can.
她将香蕉皮扔进垃圾筒。
Sales of unmanned devices on the rise despite pandemicEntrepreneur Ma Zhiqiang is introducing innovative Chinese technologies, including agricultural drones, to Ecuador, a South American nation known for its crops such as bananas, cocoa and coffee.
"Chinese agricultural drones have taken the lead in high-precision navigation and spraying, so I wanted to introduce cutting-edge Chinese technologies and products to Ecuador," Ma added, noting that fully automated drones are ideal for use on banana plantations.
"The variety has expanded from durians at the beginning to mangosteens, longan, grapefruits, coconuts, pineapples, bananas and other fruits.
Data from the US company shows that the sales of Dole Extra Sweet Banana jumped 126 percent in 2017 to 2020 following its participation in the last three editions of the expo.
The firm, which owns Banana Republic and its namesake Gap brands, entered the Chinese mainland in 2010 and has faced mounting pressure from competitors like Japanese clothing group Fast Retailing Co Ltd, which owns Uniqlo, and Spanish fast-fashion brands such as Zara from Inditex SA.
The firm, which owns Banana Republic and its namesake Gap brands, entered China in 2010 and has faced mounting pressure in competitions including Japanese clothing group Fast Retailing co Ltd, which owns Uniqlo, and Spanish fast-fashion brands from Inditex SA.
Due to the new road and growing income, many local farmers plan to expand the scale of their tea gardens and plant more economic crops such as macadamia nuts, bananas and sugarcane, he said.
"We noticed that the biggest demand was for agricultural and food products, tropical fruits such as fresh bananas, mangos and pineapples.
"Last year alone, the Philippines exported more than $600 million worth of Cavandish bananas to China, said the ambassador.
"The Philippines is the largest exporter of high-quality Cavandish bananas to China, and its many varieties of mangoes are gaining popularity in China's big city malls such as in Beijing and Shanghai.
"We hope in the future we will go up the value chain and introduce more processed products, such as what we are showing at the CIIE, like banana chips and virgin coconut oil, good for not only cooking but also for skincare. "
The shipowner built this vessel to transport fruit, mainly bananas, under refrigeration.
"Under the new deal, visitors to the Shanghai Disneyland can also taste the golden pineapple seafood fried rice, sweet banana mixed nut cake and other special fruit snacks co-developed by Dole and Shanghai Disneyland.
As apples, bananas and watermelons are some the bestsellers of Dole in China, the company plans to introduce more new products to the China market with the expo, including Mexican avocados, super sweet bananas from the Philippines, Thai fragrant coconut and Ecuadorian bananas.
He referred to the "BosWash" region in the United States and the so-called "Blue Banana" in Europe, which went through similar transitions.
The ship loaded with 3,000 twenty-foot-equivalent unit (TEU) containers of goods, such as bananas and white prawns, left the Guayaquil port in Ecuador on Dec 28.
Currently, main exports of Honduras include coffee, bananas, palm oil, shrimp, sugar and tobacco among others.
BOAO, Hainan — Whether it be durian from Thailand, bananas from the Philippines, passion fruit from Vietnam, longan from Cambodia or coffee from Malaysia, more and more agricultural products from ASEAN countries are being well-received by Chinese households, thanks to better China-ASEAN cooperation in agriculture.
"Our cooperation mainly focuses on the cultivation of tropical crops, such as China's natural rubber and bananas, and on the cultivation of new varieties, green and efficient cultivation and intensive processing of agricultural products, especially the demonstration and construction of key technology bases," Xie said.
"Besides durian, other fruits such as passion fruit, banana, pineapple and mango still have many opportunities for export growth to China, as long as they meet the requirements of Chinese partners, like complying with full and strict procedures from planting to harvesting, preserving and packing," he said.
Bananas will soon follow suit, contributing to bigger overall trade between China and Vietnam.
The Philippines is China's largest source of banana and pineapple imports, with coconut, avocado and frozen fruits entering the Chinese market one after another, said Shu, adding that fresh durian will be exported to China soon.
Each loaded with 25 cold-chain containers, the two trains shipped over 1,300 tonnes of fruits -- longans, bananas and other fruits from Thailand and Laos.
Fruit distributor Chongqing Hongjiu Fruit Co Limited imported 20 containers of longans and five containers of bananas to Chongqing on Thursday.
A total of 543 metric tons of fruit, including bananas, longan and durian, which had been loaded in Vientiane, Laos, departed from Mohan Railway Station to their destinations across the country after inspection and quarantine.
According to China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co Ltd, the imported fruits, totaling 543 tonnes, included 351 tons of bananas from Laos, and 154 tons of longan and 38 tons of durian from Thailand.
It is building an integrated banana supply chain, relying on the corridor together with Cambodia, and working with Malaysia on a supply chain resource center along the corridor.
"China is a huge market for Cambodia, especially for our potential agricultural products such as rice, bananas, mangoes and cassava, among others," he told Xinhua.
The Southeast Asian nation had shipped 24 kinds of agricultural products to China, he said in a Facebook post, adding that they included fresh bananas, milled rice, dried cassava chips, cassava starch, dried mangoes, fresh mangoes, dried rubber, cashew nuts, and cocoa powder, among others.
Last year, fresh fruits in the order of import volume were durian, cherries, bananas, mangosteens and grapes.
The company also imports bananas and coconuts from Southeast Asian countries.
In 2021, cross-border trains connecting Nanning and Hanoi, Vietnam, operated 346 freight round trips, and the number surged 108.4 percent year-on-year, according to China Railway Nanning Group Co Ltd. Vietnam is exporting nine kinds of fruit to China through cross-border trade-dragon fruit, watermelons, litchi, bananas, mangos, jackfruit, rambutans, longans and mangosteens.
Cambodian Ministry of Commerce's undersecretary of state and spokesman Penn Sovicheat said China is a huge market for Cambodia, particularly for potential agricultural products such as rice, bananas and mangoes, among others.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister Sorasak encouraged more Chinese enterprises to buy more rice, corns, mangoes, bananas and other potential agricultural produce from Cambodia.
"The president emphasized the need to improve and diversify exports beyond top products such as pitahaya, noting, "Selling more shrimp and more bananas to China means more employment in Ecuador.
"Indonesia's bananas, mangosteens, Thailand's coconuts, longan, durians and Vietnam's pitaya are the 'frequenters' on our ship," said Lu Xiaoshan, manager of the shipping department of the New Sitc International Shipping Agency (Shanghai) Co Ltd's branch in Qinzhou.
China's "huge and robust market is very attractive to ASEAN members," said Joseph Matthews, senior professor at the BELTEI International University in Phnom Penh, noting that Cambodia attends the expo many times, coveting the unique chance to promote mangos and bananas.
At the port's Haitian Container Terminal, robotic bridge cranes unloaded containers filled with bananas and rubber from a newly arrived cargo ship, and then replaced them with clothing, footwear and electromechanical products.
"We have the best-tasting bananas and mangoes in the world.
"Wang cited apples and bananas as two examples.
Gong said farmers in Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and other South American countries with complex terrain attach more importance to the flexibility and precision of spraying, and farm drones are mainly used in banana, cocoa, coffee and sugar cane plantations.
Zhang Jianping, head of the Center for Regional Economic Cooperation at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said the economic growth of Honduras is primarily driven by its agricultural sector, highlighted by exports of farm produce such as coffee, banana, palm oil, cultivated shrimp, sugar and tobacco.
As part of the plan, experts sent by the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will help the Southeast Asian nation build up its expertise in growth of milled rice, corn, rubber, cassava, bananas, animal production and aquaculture and work toward better food security.