The Canadian government has announced its decision to open an Indo-Pacific Agriculture and Agri-Food office in Manila, highlighting the important role the Philippines plays in its Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS). The Canadian Embassy in Manila said the office is a joint...
Indonesia is expanding tuna farming to improve its aquaculture sector and advance sustainability practices. Indonesia captures the most tuna of any country, accounting for around 16% of the world’s total tuna supply. However, exploitation of wild tuna in...
Kerry, an Ireland-based food company, has officially inaugurated a taste manufacturing facility in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. Spanning across 50,000 square meters, this facility represents a substantial expansion of Kerry’s portfolio in Southeast Asia,...
Coffee is a highlight of Vietnam’s agricultural exports in the first half of 2023. Owing to surging coffee prices due to reduced output amidst severe weather conditions globally, Vietnam expects the export revenue of coffee to exceed USD 4 billion for the second...
Bluu Seafood, a German biotech startup that aims to produce sustainable and high-quality seafood products through cellular agriculture, plans to introduce lab-grown seafood in Singapore by 2024. By producing fish-grown cells in a laboratory, growing demand for seafood...
Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) has emerged as the first company in Thailand to send cooked duck meat to Australia. The company plans to export around 500-600 tons of cooked duck products per year, mainly including roast duck, shredded duck...
The Senior Undersecretary of the Philippines Department of Agriculture recently highlighted how the Marcos Administration is determined to provide more assistance to the agricultural sector. The government believes that by increasing investments in food production,...
The Vietnamese shrimp sector has expanded considerably over the past decade, but some issues such as overfishing, diseases, pollution, and forced labor are still to be fully solved. One option is to promote the use of artificial ponds, which allow for more control...
In late May 2023, Solein, the sustainable protein developed by Finnish Tech Food company Solar Foods, underwent its first official tasting in Singapore, half a year after the city-state first approved the sale of products containing this ingredient in October 2022. As...
Israel’s Flying Spark has recently announced the opening of its first factory in Thailand, in Petchaburi, which will produce fruit-fly protein. The company wants to expand in the Thai market offering a sustainable and high-quality protein alternative for animal feed...
It has been announced that Japanese dairy giant Megmilk Snow Brand is partnering with Singaporean global agrifood supplier Agrocorp International to produce and distribute plant-based ingredients to accelerate the shift toward sustainable food production in Malaysia...
Four Danish companies, Topsoe, Alfa Laval, Copenhagen Atomics and Aalborg CSP, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indonesian ammonia producer Pupuk Kaltim, and with Pertamina New & Renewable Energy, both of which are owned by the Indonesian...
