The farm is located at central China’s Hunan Province. (Image source: Stéphane Toumayan/Flickr)
Chinese researchers have created a record for hybrid rice production with an average yield of 66.7 kg per ha
China’s hybrid rice yield hits record
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Vietnam’s rice output forecast at 45mn tonnes this year
The winter rice is growing well due to favourable weather and good irrigation, MARD said. (Image source: Mee Lin Woon/sxc.hu)
Vietnam is expected to produce 45mn tonnes of paddy rice in 2014, up almost 800,000 tonnes over 2013, according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
Smartphone app to test seed quality launched in Australia
The development of the app stemmed from a collaboration between Seed Services Australia and UniSA’s School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences. (Image source: IRRI/Flickr)
Australian researchers have developed a new smartphone app to help farmers and exporters test the quality of seed
World to see record wheat production in 2014-15
World inventories of wheat at the end of the 2014-15 season may total 195mn tonnes. (Image source: Nupur Das Gupta/Flickr)
Global wheat production will rise to a record 717mn tonnes in the 2014-15 season and 0.6 per cent higher than the previous year, UK-based International Grains Council (IGC) said
Thai firm country’s first to enter Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
TUF is the first and only Thai company in the food category to be selected as an official member of DJSI Emerging Markets 2014. (Image source: TUF)
Thai Union Frozen Products Public Company Limited (TUF) has been selected by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Emerging Markets 2014 as the first-time member in the food category
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