Initially, the agriculture department will focus on cassava, along with corn, coffee, coconut and fisheries as focus commodities. (Image source: Pixabay)
The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture has entered a formal partnership with Grow Asia Agriculture Forum, through the newly-formed Philippine Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (PPSA)
Taiwan’s FDA will soon launch a comprehensive inspection of beverage chains to address consumers’ concerns about the presence of pesticide residues in their drinks. (Image source: A Girl with Tea/Flickr)
Taiwanese government has launched a cloud-based traceability system for domestic tea, which will allow consumers to trace the source and production of tea, the council of agriculture (COA) said
The first successful project in the southeast Asian nation was the local Laila rice variety. (Image source: Zefe Wu/Pixabay)
Brunei’s efforts are already in place to increase rice production through various incentive schemes, such as buy-back programmes, improvement of infrastructures and others, according to Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources
Vietnams vegetables and fruit exports to South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong have increased by 100 per cent, 300 per cent and 230 per cent. (Image source: Pixabay)
Vietnam has earned US$274mn from exporting vegetables and fruits in Q1 2015, which is a 13 per cent increase YoY
The PPP Tea group’s objectives are to enhance exports via Unilever, and to improve the quality of Vietnamese tea from 3.6 to 4.0 standard under the brand name ‘Tea Made in Vietnam’. (Image source: Syahir Hakim/Pixabay)
Since 2011, after Vietnam joined with 12 global companies to launch a public-private partnership (PPP) programme, the country’s agricultural output has risen by an average of three per cent a year
