Swiss-based technology company Sarmap has launched a new digital data monitoring system to reduce vulnerability of smallholders engaged in rice production by setting up an easy accessible rice information system to better manage domestic rice production
Agriculture
Panama disease dominates the International Banana Congress
The main talk among the delegates assembling in Miami for the 6th International Banana Congress was about how to combat the Panama Disease – Fusarium Oxysporum, that is doing so much damage to crops across the region and in other parts of the world
Drones for disaster risk reduction in Philippines
The Philippines department of agriculture (DA) and the UN’s food and agriculture organisation (FAO) have launched drones to predict and reduce disaster risk in the agricultural sector
US$1mn for mapping Indonesian peatlands
The Indonesian Peat Prize competition has been organised to find and establish a national standard for mapping the country’s peat most efficiently
Connecting farmers with modern market value chains
A UN FAO report has suggested that governments across the APAC region provide an enabling environment to support the integration outputs of poor, smallholder farmers into modern efficient value chains