Results for Agriculture

The Tonga Squash Council believes that this year's squash harvest will fall short of the 5,000 tonnes that it targeted for export this year.

Tonga will export only 5000 tonnes of squash this year, a more than 50% drop from the 10,215 tonnes that it exported last year.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging all countries to strengthen their food safety systems and to be far more vigilant with food producers and traders.

The first shipment of Tongan squash bound for Japan and a new market Korea departed Nuku...’alofa on Saturday October 14 with 2,108 tonnes of squash, but a disappointingly low yield is expected this year.

Tongan squash exports could reach 12,600 tonnes this year, the Secretary General of the Tonga Squash Council, Stephen Edwards estimated at the end of the squash-planting season this week, more than the 12560 tonnes exported last year.

Tongan squash growers hoping for some Christmas cash will be disappointed as the payments for this year' sqaush exports will not be made by the exporters to the growers until next year.

The first shipment of Tongan squash to Japan for 2005 will leave Nuku‘alofa at the end of next week with 3200 tonnes of Tongan squash.

Mangoes for breakfast, mangoes for lunch, and mangoes for dinner - we have mangoes dropping on our heads and squashing under our feet in Tongatapu this month.

The first shipment of Tongan squash for Japan for 2004 is expected to leave Nuku'alofa in early October, but this year the Tonga Squash Council takes control of the Squash Industry, and is setting a maximum of 16,500 tonnes for export.