The global commercial seeds market will be expected to touch US$53.32bn in 2018 growing from US$34.50bn in 2011, registering a CAGR growth of 6.5 per cent from the period between 2012 and 2018  

Corn serves as an important source of biofuel but with a growing rise in food prices, Japan is facing the dilemma of whether to use crops as a source of biofuel. (Image source: Dodo-Bird/Flickr)

The government of Japan has plans to introduce 500,000 kilo litres of oil-based biofuels by 2017 reaching up to 1.8mn kilo litres by 2020 in an attemp to supplement the countrys energy source

China is expected to see a bumper garlic harvest this year with production set to increase by 35 per cent year-on-year in 2013-14

Myanmar may soon have an algae farming hub in Yangon with Nation First International Development Asia (NFIDAsia) Company planning to invest in such a venture at the earliest