Thailand is the world’s number one producer of natural rubber. (Image Source: jefftollefson1968/Flickr)
The 12th Global Rubber Conference (GRC 2016) will take place at Deevana Plaza hotel in Krabi, Thailand from 11-13 October this year
FAO and China have agreed to broaden the scope of their cooperation. (Image Source: absent84/fotolia)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Chinese government have announced plans to intensify their partnership in south-south cooperation activities, FAO announced last week
The programme will identify 600 rice varieties to accelerate crop breeding.(Image Source: iaea_imagebank/Flickr)
Scientists from UK-based The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), in partnership with Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), hav begun bioinformatics training programme to rice breeders in Vietnam
The organisations will combine their resources to breed potato varieties suitable for South Asia markets. (Image Source: 16:9clue/Flickr)
The International Potato Center (CIP), global seed potato company HZPC and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) have come together in a new partnership to develop better potatoes for tropical and subtropical conditions
According to statistics from Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, over 9,000 tonnes of mangoes were exported in 2015, the majority shipped to Vietnam. (Image source: Eric Havir/Flickr)
Cambodia-based agro-industrial company Mong Reththy Group has sent 13 shipments of mangoes to Europe this year, totalling 54,000 kg
