China and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have signed a US$50mn agreement to support the food systems in developing nations
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Altor Fund IV and Goldman Sachs set to buy Hamlet Protein
Altor Fund IV and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division have partnered to acquire majority share of Hamlet Protein from Polaris Private Equity
Bringing big data to farming in Indonesia
Indonesian local start-up Collective Intelligence Agriculture (CI-Agriculture), subsidiary of analytical solutions provider Mediatrac, is bringing digital innovation to farming in the Southeast Asian country
Egg Force Reader upgraded for better data processing
Equipment supplier EggTester.com has upgraded its Egg Force Reader, which now communicates with a computer via Bluetooth wireless communication
Japan develops scanner to detect marbling in meat
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has developed a new in-vivo scanner to detect the amount of marbling in meat