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Rice exporters Thailand and Vietnam did not submit offers at a Philippines 203,000-tonne import tender, citing stricter terms. The tender by one of the world’s top rice importers was held to meet unfilled orders after a tender on Oct. 18 for 250,000 tons of…
China should import more Vietnamese products, especially agriculture produce, so as to balance bilateral trade, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Sunday. “As Vietnam is seeing a great trade deficit with China, you [Chinese businesses] should import more products from…
Failure to incorporate market needs and hi-tech elements into their projects is costing Vietnam’s agriculture startups dear, experts say. Experts and other participants at the opening ceremony of the Saigon Times Startup Club recently agreed Vietnam comes up…
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for a drastic reduction in administrative procedures and easier access to agricultural loans. He said at a recent conference in the Central Highlands city of Da Lat that relevant departments and ministries should…
Instead of working individually, Vietnamese farmers should band together and become “industrial workers,” an expert says. Dang Kim Son, former director of research with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said at the Vietnam Economic Forum on…
Farmers are growing more food than the population can eat due to a breakdown in communication. Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) launched a new department on Wednesday aiming to “rescue” the country’s farm products. Despite its…
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance will start selling insurance products that compensate farmers hit by drought in Indonesia as early as this autumn. Earlier this month, Sompo Japan signed a memorandum to partner with BMKG, Indonesia’s meteorological bureau, to…
Cau Dat Farm Da Lat, famed in the central highlands town of Da Lat since 1927, has applied IoT to its crops since mid-2016. Though occupying a large land area, productivity at the farm has been quite low under traditional farming methods and an unpredictable…
The Philippines on Monday signed agricultural deals with Thailand, three months before it scraps a quantitative restriction on rice imports under an agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The agricultural agreement encompasses information exchange…
Vietnam plans to have at least 10 hi-tech agriculture production zones comprising 200 enterprises by 2020. To date, it has attracted 20 enterprises. 1. Vietnam-Australia JSC, a foreign invested enterprise with a branch in Bac Lieu province, has pioneered…
The Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development launched a programme dubbed “Green Connection towards A Clean Agriculture” in HCM City yesterday to strengthen the linkages between various players in the agricultural production chain. It is also aimed at…
CropLife Asia announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Asian Apicultural Association (AAA) to support a research initiative to catalogue and study the bee species and populations in Asia. CropLife Asia Executive Director…
Faced with the highest-ever surge in food prices in the past two years, the NDA government did some brainstorming on Wednesday to devise steps to check prices, especially of pulses. At a review meeting convened by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here, it was…
