Cambodia exported 335,925 tonnes of rice in the first 11 months of 2014, up from 332,009 tonnes in the same period last year. (Image source: Department of foreign affairs and trade/Flickr)
Cambodia’s minister of commerce has announced that the country will step up efforts to export rice to Africa, Middle East and the European Union
Malaysia might maintain the zero per cent export duty until March 2015. (Image source: CIFOR/Flickr)
Malaysia, world’s second-largest crude palm oil (CPO) producer and exporter, would continue its duty-free export tariff in January 2015, according to the customs department
The US department of agriculture revised the exports to a four-year low of 2.5m tonnes in 2014-15. (Image source: Maja/sxc.hu)
China has clamped down corn imports from the USA by 500,000 tonnes this year over claims of containing a genetically modified variety not approved by Beijing
Vietnam has around 10mn farming households in rural areas and 70 per cent of the population is involved in agriculture. (Image source: Pam Morris/Flickr)
Vietnam and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have signed a contract to establish the country’s first international agricultural research centre
Rice production in Thailand represents a significant portion of the Thai economy and labor force. (Image source: n1kw/Flickr)
Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) has renewed its collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture in an effort to continue a rice development programme in the country
