Agriculture

Agricultural commodities, processing and products

Quảng Ninh lures additional $47 million investment

The northern province of Quảng Ninh attracted more than US$47 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first six months of 2017.Keep reading ...

Southern rubber farmers grow impatient

Discontent among southern rubber farmers against the government has grown even as the government explained it has done its best to ease their woes stemming from plummeting rubber prices.Read more ...

Trade in pulses, sesame seeds slackens after bank accounts frozen

Mandalay businessmen said prices of pulses and sesame seeds declined after a Chinese bank decided to freeze dozens of Myanmar traders’ accounts last month, triggering a slowdown in the trade of the commodities.Read more ...

HCM City tracing poultry origins

After gaining encouraging results from a pilot programme that allow consumers to check the origin of pork, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade on July 1 announced the implementation of a plan to use information technology to control and trace the origin of ...

Funds needed for hi-tech agriculture

Agricultural productivity and quality should be increased by investing more in innovation and strengthening links between all stakeholders, including farmers, enterprises and research institutes, experts say. At a seminar held in Hà Nội on Tuesday, they also said that access to land, capital and markets were ...

Cassava prices hit a new low

Cassava prices in Cambodia experienced a sharp drop this month leading to heavy losses for smallholder farmers unable to quickly switch to more profitable crops and recoup their mounting losses, a provincial agriculture official said yesterday.Faced with low prices of around 144 riel ($0.035) per ...

Vietnam’s black pepper race persists notwithstanding price dip

Though per-kilogram prices of black pepper in Vietnam have dropped 65 percent since their record high two years ago, local growers are still racing to increase production. After peaking at VND200,000 ($8.81) per kilogram in 2015, the price of black pepper in Vietnam has plummeted ...

100 rai of violated land seized by officials on Koh Lanta

Department of Forestry and allied officials on Thursday seized about 100 rai of land in Phuket’s Koh Lanta that had been encroached upon by parties they described as “too powerful, unfazed by law and willing to threaten authorities with death”.More than 30 officials from several ...

Mandalay to China rice exports dip

Rice exports from Mandalay to China have dropped to almost nil due to finance difficulties caused by China’s decision to freeze 132 bank accounts of Myanmar citizens on June 14, said rice traders in the border region.The freezing of the bank accounts has caused difficulties ...

Shaky outlook for black pepper

The rapid expansion of pepper cultivation in Cambodia coincides with the spice’s plummeting world prices, creating concerns that the glut of pepper ripening on vines across the Kingdom could further erode next season’s market prices and push the sector toward a collapse.Read more ...

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