The soybean sector covers a range of businesses that involve food and oil processing, production, animal husbandry, chemical fibre and other industries. (Image source: UnitedSoybeanBoard/Flickr)
Soybean imports in China are likely to rise to a new high by August 2014 due to the fall in domestic output and increased demand for animal feed and edible oil
The scheme will raise the image of the product and strategically brand it in international markets. (Image source: oneVillage Initiative/Flickr)
The Malaysian government will implement a certification scheme based on its standards to brand the sustainablity and nutritional benefits of the country’s palm oil
A new book explores the inexorable rise of the use of machinery in farmers’ fields. (Image source: FAO)
Farm machines have revolutionised agriculture and made life easy for farmers, but the machinery of tomorrow will also have to contribute to agriculture that is environmentally sustainable, says a new FAO book
This project is expected to help the people in the target provinces increase the water productivity and land-use efficiency. (Image source: Eva Schuster/sxc.hu)
World Bank has approved a funding of US$180mn to improve irrigated agricultural production systems in seven selected Vietnam provinces, which will help farming families with better irrigation, drainage service and farming techniques by 2019
Brende distributed sacks of rice seedlings in districts of Can-abay, Tingib and San Antonio. (Image source: IRRI/Flickr)
Norway has recently donated rice seedlings to 1,914 typhoon-affected farmers at three Samar districts in the Philippines
