South Korea has been exempted from liberalising its rice market for 20 years due to the 1994 Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. (Image source: Lihi Koren/Flickr)
South Korea has announced that it aims at increasing its rice exports after export restrictions are lifted on the staple grain from March 2015
Myanmar and China will jointly build a 200-tonne advanced rice mill at Nyaungdone in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region, according to the Myanmar Rice Millers Association (MRMA)
Organic rice exports still command only a fraction of Cambodia’s overall rice exports, which totalled 380,000 tonnes of rice in 2014, authorities revealed. (Image source: Brandon W. Mosley/sxc.hu)
Cambodia is aiming to double up it organic rice exports to 1,000 tonnes in 2015, according to official sources
India-based Dhanuka Agritech manufactures a wide range of farm input products to support farmers. (Image source: Timothy Corbin/Flickr)
Agro-chemicals manufacturer Dhanuka Agritech has launched herbicide SEMPRA to protect sugarcane from weeds in India
: Farm mechanisation is seen as a key tool in countering the decline in rural productivity in China. (Image source: Worldfish/Flickr)
China has announced that it will give priority to growers of key staple crops as it seeks to guarantee food self-sufficiency amid a declining rural workforce in the country
