Asia > Agriculture

Agriculture in Asia

  • Food security, an emerging challenge for import driven countries

    AMERICAS, 2013/04/01 “In a large proportion of cities in Africa and Asia, destructive floods have become an annual event.” Food security, an emerging challenge, next the major spikes in food prices in 2007 and 2008, is presently of primary concern particularly for nations, like Nigeria, that rely on buying, rather than producing, the International Institute for Environment and Improvment(IIED), has said.

  • World Food Prices Decline For Third Month

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 World food prices dropped for the third successive month in December, owing mainly to lower prices for cereals and oil-seeds, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.

  • Malaysian Edible Oil Giant to Build Plant in Ethiopia

    MALAYSIA, 2013/02/05 Malaysian palm oil manufacturer, Pacific Interlink, is set to erect the major ever edible oil refinery in Ethiopia, which will produce 300,000tn of oil at an estimated cost of 401.1 million Br. The company’s proposition was approved by the Privatisation and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA), which initially designed and studied the viability of such a project.

  • Indian company invests in mung bean and sesame seed production in Mozambique

    INDIA, 2013/01/12 The Indian company Primus Agri Products Private Limited is investing US$3 million to commercially produce mung beans (Vigna radiata) and sesame seeds in Mozambique’s Nampula province, reports the Maputo-based daily Notícias. In this agricultural season 150 hectares have been prepared and sown with the two crops, company director Praveena Kumar told the newspaper, adding that the harvest will mainly go to Asian markets with high request for those products.

  • The full palm oil storage tanks at the Chinese ports

    CHINA, 2012/12/25 The full palm oil storage tanks at the Chinese ports near Guangzhou and Shanghai are bad news for small Indonesian farmers like Sugang Suprayetno. Farm-gate prices for palm oil in his village of Pulo Dogom on Sumatra have fallen by additional than a third over the past months as Chinese and Indian request for commodities has shrunk in line with slowing increase in the large Asian economies.

  • Global food production to slow following boom

    EUROPE, 2012/12/23 World food production will slow over the coming decade following an exceptional but unsustainable rate of increase in developing nations, with additional investment needed in the sector, the UN's food agency said. "The average annual increase in world agricultural production through 2021 will slow to 1.7 %, down from the 2.6 % of the previous decade," the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in its yearly statement. "Agriculture in a lot of nations has grown at a pace that cannot be sustained," it said, adding that production shot up by over 50 % over the last 12 years in Latin America as a whole and by 70 % in Brazil alone.

  • Punjab to waive market fees for fruit and vegetables

    INDIA, 2012/12/20 Taking a step forward in agriculture marketing reforms, Punjab may soon waive off market fees on fruits and vegetables, a move which iit is hoped, will benefit growers and consumers. The board of directors of the national agriculture marketing board has approved the abolition of market fees and has forwarded the proposal to the financial commissioner.

  • Urban spread into agricultural land could cost India dear

    INDIA, 2012/09/06 The loss of agricultural land to urbanisation, combined with insufficient planning for food supply lines, places severe constraints on next food security for India's growing people, a UN assessment released Monday warned. The assessment, which draws on contributions from additional than 123 scientists worldwide, states that India's growing urban clusters such as the Mumbai-Delhi industrial corridor are likely to transform entire regions, with significant impact on habitat and biodiversity.

  • Bangladesh's food grain imports fall sharply 2012-07-19

    BANGLADESH, 2012/07/19 Bangladesh's food grain import during July-April period of the outgoing 2011-12 fiscal year ending this month declined sharply by additional than 50 % year-on- year, said a central bank official of Sunday.

  • Viet nam, Salt producers abandon fields as prices and productivity fall

    VIETNAM, 2011/04/17 Salt farmers nationwide have been caught in such a difficult situation that many have left their fields idle even as peak production season looms, local reports say. They say that this season has been characterised by low productivity, low prices and large stockpiles of low quality salt that is difficult to consume. The country produced 136,706 tonnes of salt in the first three months of the year, just 47 per cent of the output of the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Trending Articles