Japan keen to use sewage sludge as fertilizer
By promoting the domestic production of fertilizers, the government aims to keep prices down and protect agricultural businesses from negative impacts.
Lampung coffee farmers dream of welfare and price independence
As coffee shops grow in trend, Lampung grows to embrace its coffee industry and local farmers.
Transition to aquaculture a better path ahead for Vietnam
Vietnam has over 1 million square kilometres of sea area available for aquaculture but a major part of the area is untapped.
Longer flooding will not greatly affect Cambodia’s rice exports
The Ministry of Agriculture reported that in the first seven months of 2022, Cambodia exported more than 350,000 tonnes of milled rice to 53 countries.
Marcos wants to accelerate efforts to build agricultural sector back
He said the Philippines is currently only “playing catch-up” in building back the agriculture sector but expressed confidence that it will be a leading resource hub in the…
China’s policy bank lends billions more to agriculture
To ensure grain security, the bank has issued loans worth 372 billion yuan to help purchase summer and autumn grain over the past year.
Lives destroyed as armyworms invade Philippine ‘onion capital’
Scientists have warned that crop-damaging pests will only become more destructive as climate change brings hotter weather and more unseasonable rains ever.
Tokushima strives to turn ‘forest caviar’ into juicy new local specialty
Some businesses have already started selling the fruit online, hoping to carve out a new local specialty to join the sudachi Japanese citrus.
Low-carbon rice production helps Vietnam meet emission targets
Rice, Vietnam’s most important crop, accounts for 48 per cent of the agriculture sector’s emissions and over 75 per cent of methane emissions.
Smell of success: PH durian soon exported to China
“They successfully completed the risk assessment of the orchard harvesting, fruit packaging, pest monitoring”, among other evaluations, reported the Chinese Ambassador.