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
The country has to import nine million tonnes of maize for feed production annually. (Image source: Waytru/Flickr)
Vietnam’s Agriculture Ministry has approved the import of four corn varieties in August 2015
