The Vietnam Food Association has stated that China imported 30 per cent of rice from Vietnam in 2014. (Image source: Henningklevjer/WikimediaCommons)
The government of China has granted rice import quotas to businesses, providing an impetus to the exports market especially cross-border exports
CP Foods offers livestock products including chicken broilers, chicken layers, ducks and swine. (Image source: USDA/Flickr)
Thailand’s meat and animal feed producer Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) is set to invest US$763mn in 2015 for overseas expansions and acquisitions
According to the 2010 National Greenhouse gas inventory, there will be an increase in emissions on both livestock and farm land in Vietnam. (Image source: CatSh/sxc.hu)
Vietnam plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice cultivation alone by 14 per cent by 2030
In 2009, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge had conducted tests on raw chicken meat available in Phnom Penh’s chicken market and found that 46 per cent of the samples showed traces of salmonella. (Image source: streetwrk.com/Flickr)
The Cambodian government will introduce a food safety law in 2015 that will see the country adopt a set of standards and ensure greater coordination across ministries, according to a health official
Export restrictions on crude palm oil encourage local processing while duty-free exports mean more crude palm oil leaving the country, rather than going to local refiners. (Image source: Eva Schuster/sxc.hu)
Malaysia’s crude palm oil prices fell to their lowest in nearly six weeks after the country announced that taxes will be reimposed on exports of the vegetable oil starting April 2015
