The volume is 200,000 tonnes higher than the same period last year. (Image source: IRRI)
Member enterprises of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) have already clinched export contracts for at least one million tonnes of rice with delivery scheduled for this year
China would see 50bn kg of new food demand by 2020. (Image source: Hiroshi77/Flickr)
Efforts are being made by China to boost potato acreage and transform the crop into the country’s fourth staple food after rice, wheat and corn, according to Yu Xinrong, vice-minister of agriculture
The centre will design and implement local and foreign scholarships and fellowship programmes on the academic fields that will enhance palm oil development. (Image source: Ryan/Flickr)
A Filipino official has filed a bill that seeks to improve and promote the palm oil industry by establishing a Palm Oil Research, Development and Extension Centre in Mindanao
Based on Bangkok daily rates, the Rubber Board of India will fix the price of the natural rubber on a daily basis. (Image source: Récolte/wikimedia)
In a bid to arrest the price fall in India, 17 India-based tyre companies have agreed to procure natural rubber from domestic market at 25 per cent rate higher than the international price
Australia is among the top five largest fruit exporters to Vietnam besides China, the USA, New Zealand and South Africa. (Image source: Kerry J/Flickr)
Vietnam has stopped issuing import permits for Australian fruit and vegetables for 2015, citing concerns about fruit fly
