Russia-ASEAN trade turnover topped US$17.5bn in 2013. (Image source: Wong Mei Teng/sxc.hu)
Russia has called for increased agricultural product exports from the ASEAN region, according to local reports
The Ministry aims to cultivate Vietnam’s first GM crops by 2015 and have 30-50 per cent of the country’s farmland covered with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by 2020. (Image source: Michael Dorausch/Flickr)
Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted licences to four genetically modified (GM) corn varieties to be used for both human consumption and animal feed
Scientists have successfully tested a new water-saving irrigation technology in the growing area of Hami in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
India boosted exports of the country’s palm oil. (Image source: Bill Barclay/Flickr)
Indonesia has witnessed highest exports of palm oil in July this year at 1.8mn metric tonnes after India boosted purchases
The vegetables, produced within a 248 square metre indoor facility in Tuas, includes green lettuce, white radish, rocket lettuce, basil, mint herb, wild parsley, baby spinach. (Image source: Panasonic)
Electronics firm Panasonic has recently set up a farm in Singapore to produce local vegetables, becoming the country’s first licensed indoor farmer
