With a longer list of possible suppliers, the nation could keep a lid on the cost of purchases even if emergencies such as natural disasters hit agriculture at home. (Image source: Public Domain Picture/Pixabay)
The Philippines’ state grains procurement agency has announced that it is looking to import rice from a broader range of countries including India, Myanmar and Pakistan in order to diversify its supplies
San Miguel Pure Foods, at present, has manufacturing plants in Vietnam and Indonesia. (Image source: San Miguel Pure Foods)
The Philippines’ San Miguel Pure Foods is looking to seal its purchase of firms in Vietnam and Indonesia engaged in the meat processing business this year as it seeks to bolster its operations abroad
(From left) Harsinto Huang, CFO of TPS Group Syambiri Lioe, CEO of TPS Group Joko Mogoginta, president of the Bühler Group for Asia Dieter Voegtli and Tomas Soleman. (Image source: Bühler Group)
The Bühler Group has signed an agreement to supply the TPS Group, Indonesian rice and noodle producer, with two 17 tonnes per hour rice reprocessing lines worth US$7mn
The premix plant at Binh Duong has achieved high levels of compliance in quality management, personnel, documentation, quality control and production. (Image source: Biomin)
Animal nutrition company Biomin’s premix plant at Binh Duong in Vietnam has been awarded the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP+B1) certification, becoming the first and only premix facility to do so in the country
The construction is expected to start in 2015 and is due to be completed by 2017. (Image source: Johanan Ottensooser/Flickr)
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)
