ICL, one of the leaders in global specialty minerals, recently announced its partnership with startup accelerator StartLife in its quest to invest in startups focused on new ways to address global challenges in food and agricultural production
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Creating opportunities via mungbean sprouts
A global research collaboration led by the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) and supported by ACIAR aims to help countries around the world tailor new mungbean varieties to local conditions and markets
Asia-Pacific countries to showcase their best agricultural products
Countries across Asia and the Pacific are joining an initiative to promote and showcase the ‘best of the best’ of their special agricultural products – a move designed to ensure a high level of participation from smallholders to producers to exporters and others all along the value chain
Westfalia and Sam Agri to expand avocado supply in India
Westfalia Fruit, one of the leading multinational suppliers of vegetables and fruit has announced its expansion into India through a joint venture called West In Avo Limited with Sam Agri, an Indian agri-business company
Provivi and Syngenta launch pheromone-based pest control technology for rice crop
Provivi, a leading provider of pheromone-based crop protection solutions, and Syngenta Crop Protection, one of the world’s leading agriculture companies, have announced the commercialisation of ‘Nelvium’, a new mating disruption solution, to effectively and more safely control detrimental pests in rice