The Malaysian government will be launching a National Agrofood Policy 2021-2030 (NAP 2.0) to transform the agrofood industry into a sustainable, competitive and high-technology sector and to boost economic growth. NAP 2.0 is a precedent to the National Agrofood Policy...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) led the inauguration of the Philippines’ first Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) Shrimp Hatchery and Broodstock Development Center in Barangay Labasan, Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro. The PHP...
In July, a commercial factory that produces chicken products through cell culture, which is the growing of animal cells in a bioreactor instead of slaughtering live animals, was given approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to begin operations. The factory, owned...
Thailand’s leading F&B manufacturing company Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has invited startups to create meat-like alternatives that resemble real beef. Dubbed CPF Innovation Challenge, the initiative is aimed at finding companies that can offer the best...
The “Promoting organic food certification & trade between Australia and Vietnam” project was launched in September 2021, supported by the Australian Government. The project will be carried out from September 2021 to May 2022, with an aim to expand the production...
The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has announced plans to develop smart solutions for helping farmers increase production and efficiency. The bank is currently working on the launch of a three-year soft loan scheme worth USD 1.8 billion...
GRAFT Challenge Vietnam has been recently launched in order to assist promising AgriTech innovators from around the world in expanding into Vietnam. The program is sponsored by Aus4Innovation under Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs & Trade and is run in...
Aruna, a leading fisheries and marine platform in Indonesia, has announced that it has raised USD 35 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2016, Aruna’s tech-enabled platform serves as a one-stop-shop and end-to-end supply chain aggregator, streamlining the...
FGV Holdings Berhad, Malaysia’s leading agri-commodities firm through its subsidiary, FGV Integrated Farming Sdn Bhd (FGVIF) has inked a collaboration with FELCRA Bhd, a government-owned entity, and Baladna Food Industries Co, a Qatar-based agricultural company, to...
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in collaboration with the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), constructed and turned over a solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) worth PHP 10 million (USD 200,000) to farmers in Barangay Talisay in San Andres, Quezon. The...
Singapore and US-based biotech company, TurtleTree, will scale up and develop its pioneering cell-based technologies on a commercial scale through a partnership with Solar Biotech, a US-based biomanufacturing company known for helping start-ups to scale up. TurtleTree...
FGV Holdings Berhad (FGV) has officially launched FGV Chuping Agro Valley (FCAV) in conjunction with the Northern Corridor Implementation Authority (NCIA). FGV is an integrated agri-business player with significant palm oil hectarage in Peninsular Malaysia. It is...
