Lean farming has the power to make agricultural operations more effective and improve profit margins – but it requires a radical shift in thinking, said Conor Colgan, farmer and business consultant who has spent the last 10 years pioneering lean farming methods as a result of his MBA Masters Thesis
Agriculture
Cambodia’s rice exports to China up, EU sales down
Following the tariffs imposed by the European Union (EU) on Cambodian rice, Cambodia’s rice export to EU fell sharply 32 per cent in the first six months, showed data from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality
Philippines top buyer of US wheat in the week
Philippines is among the top five countries that are seen to comprise a quarter of the world’s wheat imports over the next 10 years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Combating obesity and hunger at small island developing states
Obesity affecting populations of the small island developing states (SIDS) is a health emergency and these nations need to take ownership of measures to address this worrying trends underlying causes, said FAO director-general José Graziano da Silva
‘Avocados, coffee and citrus fruit threaten global food security’
A study by researchers at University of Maryland found how Western appetites for foods like avocados, coffee and citrus fruit are threatening global food security, having looked at 40 years of data