Vietnam is expected to face a tough 2023 despite successfully reaching its seafood export milestone in 2022. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
2022 seems to have been an impressive year for Vietnam, with exports having reached an all time high value of US$10bn, which appears to nearly be a 34% increase when compared to 2021
The accreditation of Brunei as a new country source for eggs is another step towards augmenting food cooperation between both countries. (Image Source: Adobe Stock)
On 13 December, during Singapore Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu’s official visit to Brunei’s Golden Chick Livestock Farm, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced the accreditation of Brunei as the new source of chicken egg export to Singapore
About 5,200 smallholder farmers, including more than 1,000 women farmers, will benefit from improved infrastructure and capacity. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$93mn loan to enhance shrimp farming by smallholder farmers in seven provinces in Indonesia
ASC believes that key stakeholders, governments, financial institutions, and investors will increasingly require that SDG performance is third-party audited and transparent, to provide high quality data assurance. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has released a report that looks at how responsible aquaculture can contribute to the United Nation’s (UN’s) 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and also develops a methodology to quantify how ASC verifiably contributes to these goals
The centre will also serve as a training hub for farmers to help build up a consistent supply of good quality fish fry for production. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
On 30 November, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and INVE Aquaculture, a benchmark company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly set up SFA-INVE Hatchery Technology Centre at SFA’s Marine Aquaculture Centre (MAC)
