The centre will design and implement local and foreign scholarships and fellowship programmes on the academic fields that will enhance palm oil development. (Image source: Ryan/Flickr)
A Filipino official has filed a bill that seeks to improve and promote the palm oil industry by establishing a Palm Oil Research, Development and Extension Centre in Mindanao
Australia is among the top five largest fruit exporters to Vietnam besides China, the USA, New Zealand and South Africa. (Image source: Kerry J/Flickr)
Vietnam has stopped issuing import permits for Australian fruit and vegetables for 2015, citing concerns about fruit fly
Agriculture remains the most important sector of the Cambodian economy in terms of its share of GDP. (Image source: Lihi Koren/Flickr)
Cambodia and China have signed an agreement to establish a Cambodia-China Agricultural Promotion Centre to help the Southeast Asian nation develop agriculture sustainably
Indonesia is among the top five rice-producing countries in the world. (Image source: Mee Lin Woon/sxc.hu)
By 2017, Indonesia may see six more rice varieties grown in the country as a result of an US$800,000 research project funded by Temasek Foundation, an Asia investment firm headquartered in Singapore
India had toppled Thailand two years ago to become the world’s top rice exporter as the intervention scheme priced Thai rice out of the export market and as Indian capital Delhi lifted a four-year ban on non-basmati rice sales in 2011 to trim stocks. (Image source: Pascal Thauvin/sxc.hu)
Thailand will export 11mn tonnes of rice by end of this year marking a 67 per cent rise since 2013, according to Thai Rice Exporter Association
