Durians have already yielded substantial revenues for farmers in Dala, West Kwara’ae constituency, in Malaita Province. This has prompted the Malaita Provincial Government to encourage farmers to grow more durian trees as an alternative to other existing cash crops. Last week, investor Yang Jian Qing, together with officers from the province, visited farmers at the Dala Agriculture Research Center to encourage them into durian farming.
Yang told farmers that this original Malaysian durian tree is a high value cash crop. The fruit is popular for consumers in Malaysia and Thailand. Local farmers can harvest and sell to the Asian consumers in both the domestic and export markets. This also include a niche market in China which soared recently with global demand by 400% according to HSBC financial market and business information over the past two years with an import market value of $6 billion worth of durian fruits indicating 91% of global market demand.
Source: einnews.com