The 12th Global Rubber Conference (GRC 2016) will take place at Deevana Plaza hotel in Krabi, Thailand from 11-13 October this year
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FAO, China strengthen partnership for south-south cooperation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Chinese government have announced plans to intensify their partnership in south-south cooperation activities, FAO announced last week
UK’s TGAC to train Vietnamese rice breeders
Scientists from UK-based The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), in partnership with Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), hav begun bioinformatics training programme to rice breeders in Vietnam
Drive to improve South Asia’s potatoes
The International Potato Center (CIP), global seed potato company HZPC and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) have come together in a new partnership to develop better potatoes for tropical and subtropical conditions
Cambodian mangoes enter European market
Cambodia-based agro-industrial company Mong Reththy Group has sent 13 shipments of mangoes to Europe this year, totalling 54,000 kg