Nepal’s large cardamom exports hit record Rs6.36 billion in 9 months
Nepal is the world’s largest producer of the high-value spice followed by India and Bhutan.
Agriculture
Sugar prices to further spike due to reduced sugar production in India, export curbs
Global prices have already been rallying near their highest level in more than a decade, with a pound of raw sugar currently trading at nearly 26 US cents, up from around 17 US…
How erratic weather has affected Bangladesh’s food production
Damage to their livelihood forced the daily wage earners to immediately adapt through reduced meals and less food intake.
Cash crop farming helps tribal farmers to eke out a living
A three-year programme has been taken up to help these farmers use advanced technical knowhow and increase yield.
Riau Islands rejects report on swine fever outbreak
The head of provincial Food Security, Agriculture and Animal Health Agency claimed the World Organisation for Animal Health did not have the means to determine outbreaks of animal…
Indonesia confirms outbreak of African swine fever: World Organisation for Animal Health
African swine fever is not dangerous to humans, but is fatal for pigs.
Cambodia to send agricultural specialists to Timor-Leste: PM
The Timor-Leste economy is largely dependent on the extraction of oil reserves, which account for around 80 per cent of their GDP.
Hobby of aquarium fish churning thousands for Bangladesh schoolboy
In the last one and a half years, tenth-grader Mosaddek Mandal Rahat established his aquarium fish farm "RM Ornamental Fish Zone" on 1.5 acres of family land in his village.
Agricultural, cereal, export prices up globally: World Bank
The hike in the export price index was driven by a rise in coffee prices, which rose 11 per cent.
Prolonged oversupply, costly inputs to hamper Indonesia’s poultry firms
The Agriculture Ministry has tried to solve the problem through a culling program, but this has so far failed to prop up prices.