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)
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 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
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
While Indonesia still has a significant amount of immature land to come into production, its rate of new plantings has slowed in recent years. While in Malaysia, growth has slowed as suitable new land for planting is diminishing rapidly. (Image source: Martin H/Wikimedia Commons)
The crude palm oil market in Asia will grow due to the consumption in the emerging markets such as China and India in spite of the recent downturn in prices, a Frost & Sullivan report stated
