With the various funding schemes, AVA and NParks will work closely with the farms and nurseries respectively to help them build up their capabilities. (Image source: fauxto_digit/Flickr)
The Singaporean government has pledged US$50.4mn to aid farmers in transforming their farms and nurseries into high-tech, productive plots
The oilseed rape has the most duplicated genome among all flowering plants or angiosperms. (Image source: Evelyn Simak/Wikimedia Commons)
Scientists from France’s INRA, Genoscope and University of Evry, in collaboration with international teams, have sequenced the reference genome of the oilseed rape
Russia-ASEAN trade turnover topped US$17.5bn in 2013. (Image source: Wong Mei Teng/sxc.hu)
Russia has called for increased agricultural product exports from the ASEAN region, according to local reports
According to CRD, exporters can loan or buy rice from the bank’s stockpiles while millers can sell to the mass storage provider. (Image source: IRRI)
Cambodia has launched its first paddy rice bank to ensure uninterrupted supplies to millers and exporters, according to local sources
The Ministry aims to cultivate Vietnam’s first GM crops by 2015 and have 30-50 per cent of the country’s farmland covered with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by 2020. (Image source: Michael Dorausch/Flickr)
Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted licences to four genetically modified (GM) corn varieties to be used for both human consumption and animal feed
