Dr Matthew Morell, director-general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) met with Dr Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Vietnam’s minister of agriculture, to discuss ways to increase the resilience of domestic agriculture to climate change, enhance the productivity and access to markets of rice farmers
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Bühler and Premier Tech to build design and manufacturing centre in China
Swiss Bühler Group and Premier Tech from Canada have agreed on a strategic cooperation for industrial flexible packaging solutions and announced to build a design and manufacturing centre in China
Biobest unveils product to prevent cracking in soft fruit
Biobest Group has launched Bluestim with an aim to help soft fruit growers with fewer micro-cracks in strawberries, raspberries and blueberries production by reducing the effects of abiotic stress
Thailand to ban three agricultural chemicals
Thailand is set to ban hazardous herbicides before the end of 2019, said deputy agriculture minister Manunya Thaiseth as the herbicides are strongly opposed by consumer and environmentalists
Shifting to a plant-based diet to significantly help fight climate change: GODAN
Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), has highlighted the impact of Western appetite on global warming and the importance to switching to a plant-based diet to help fight climate change