South Korea has been exempted from liberalising its rice market for 20 years due to the 1994 Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. (Image source: Lihi Koren/Flickr)
South Korea has announced that it aims at increasing its rice exports after export restrictions are lifted on the staple grain from March 2015
Organic rice exports still command only a fraction of Cambodia’s overall rice exports, which totalled 380,000 tonnes of rice in 2014, authorities revealed. (Image source: Brandon W. Mosley/sxc.hu)
Cambodia is aiming to double up it organic rice exports to 1,000 tonnes in 2015, according to official sources
: Farm mechanisation is seen as a key tool in countering the decline in rural productivity in China. (Image source: Worldfish/Flickr)
China has announced that it will give priority to growers of key staple crops as it seeks to guarantee food self-sufficiency amid a declining rural workforce in the country
Eating through hectares of banana crops, Panama disease has affected southern Philippines the most. (Image source: Fernando Stankuns/Flickr)
The Philippines has announced it will provide US$2.3mn funds to address disease damaging the country’s banana industry
IRRI said that the cooperation will save a lot of resources and shorten the time required for a variety to be released in one country. (Image source: IRRI)
A regional seed cooperation agreement among India, Bangladesh and Nepal would hasten the release and dissemination of rice varieties to benefit farmers in the region, according to International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
