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
Based on Bangkok daily rates, the Rubber Board of India will fix the price of the natural rubber on a daily basis. (Image source: Récolte/wikimedia)
In a bid to arrest the price fall in India, 17 India-based tyre companies have agreed to procure natural rubber from domestic market at 25 per cent rate higher than the international price
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
