AN exotic tropical fruit innovator is trumpeting diversity as the key to success in the Far North’s horticulture industry.

The Blockey family's tropical tree change is building on 20 years of commitment to balancing farming and environmental stewardship in one of the most iconic environmental areas on the planet.

A family in northern NSW has successfully combined farming and tourism at their productive tropical fruit farm for decades.

Image courtesy of Varkey George via Mongabay. Thidanadu panchayat stands in the midst of Kerala’s “rubber belt” in Kottayam district. But in the past decade alone, a third of rubber farmland in the ...

Its taste, production, and the revenue it brought soon made rambutan dear to both hobby and commercial farmers in no time.

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – In the lush hinterlands of Malungon town, Sarangani province, a retired corporate executive turned farmer has stumbled upon a rare variety of the tropical fruit ...

His plan is to operate an organic exotic tropical fruit farm and pair it with research of fungal and bacterial plant infections. An aquaculture operation is planned alongside the fruit production.

As traditional crops fail, a rising number of farmers in southern Italy are turning crisis into opportunity by cultivating everything from avocado to ‘chocolate fruit’ and coffee. Silvia Marchetti ...

Paul Thomson, a self-taught botanist who co-founded the California Rare Fruit Growers organization and helped expand exotic fruit-growing in the state, has died. He was 91.

Now Love and the Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers are helping tickle palates for "ultra-exotics" with a statewide series of free tastings and cooking demonstrations.

Hainan, endowed with a warm climate, is seeing rapid development in tropical high-efficiency agriculture and has become the biggest winter vegetable basket for the whole country, contributing ...

Much of northern Australia is tropical, as are many of our neighbours, but most tropical fruits are typically hard to find down under.