Vietnam is anticipating more chances in the US market as the price of its coffee exports is rising. In the first five months of 2022, Vietnam raked in USD 124.95 million from exporting 50,580 tons of coffee, representing a fall of 2.9% in volume, but a rise of 23.6%...
Scheduled to open at JTC Bedok Food City in Singapore in the first quarter of 2023, Good Meat is a company that makes healthier and more sustainable foods by applying the latest science and technology. The company is a Californian company, Eat Just, Inc. subsidiary....
Pandawa Agri Indonesia (PAI), an Agri life science company focused on pesticide reductant development, partners with Rabo Foundation, establishing the Mbay Rice Ecosystem Development initiative. During this planting season, PAI facilitates 123 smallholders with a...
Cargill, a global food corporation headquartered in Minneapolis, has extended the processing capabilities of its sweetener facility in Cikande, Indonesia, to more than double the company’s production capacity for organic, non-GMO tapioca syrup due to the robust...
Vietnam´s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development recently proposed specific cooperation areas with the UK, such as the development of green and low-emission agriculture, and the promotion of agro-forestry-aquaculture markets. The Minister urged the UK to...
South Korea will be funding an agriculture mechanization center in Nueva Ecija, a city located in the north of Luzon. The grand project broke ground last May, with the construction expected to start soon. The USD 5.78 million project will be funded through the Korea...
Malaysia’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry announced a measure to reduce the palm oil export tax from 8% to between 4-6% to alleviate the global shortage of edible oil. As the world’s second-largest palm oil producer, Malaysia aspires to increase...
Japan has just inaugurated a trading platform designed to increase exports of Japanese F&B products to Thailand and further promote Japanese cuisine in the Southeast Asian country. The establishment of the Japan Food Export Platform is in line with the Japanese...
Growhub, a Singapore-based one-stop farm-to-table solution for food traceability and data analysis, has signed a five-year lease with Food Innovation Precinct Western Australia (FIPWA) on May 20, 2022 to establish Western Australia’s first food product. An innovation...
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) will work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to develop five zones in 13 provinces dedicated solely to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries at USD 107 million by 2025. The country’s agricultural sector has not evolved...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) extended its continued support to the endeavors of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) during a courtesy call on April 6, 2022. JICA’s newly-appointed Chief Representative to the Philippines, Sakamoto Takema,...
Enza Zaden, a leading vegetable-breeding firm from the Netherlands announced the completion of its first South East Asia Research and Development (R&D) infrastructure facility in Perak state, Malaysia. The R&D facility seeks to serve the agriculture seed...
