APPROVALS OF BIOTECH crops continued to increase worldwide in 2008. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) announced recently that 13.3mn farmers in 25 countries grew biotech crops on 125mn ha in 2008.
p>APPROVALS OF BIOTECH crops continued to increase worldwide in 2008. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) announced recently that 13.3mn farmers in 25 countries grew biotech crops on 125mn ha in 2008.Agriculture
ADB loans for Cambodian rice sector
Cambodia has plans to become a major rice exporter but the country is facing legal and regulatory hurdles to commercial production. (Image source: Sistak/Flickr)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved loans worth US$55mn to help strengthen the Cambodian rice sector
China makes largest US wheat buy in three months
Indonesia to import rice after low production
Rice imports are unavoidable for Indonesia this year because of the lower than expected unhusked rice production in 2013. (Image source: sxc.hu)
The Indonesian Bureau of Logistics (Bulog) has revealed plans to import at least 600,000 tonnes of rice later this year due to low production caused by weather anomalies and poor irrigation systems
