Agricultural commodities, processing and products

Demand for organic farm produce has increased significantly both in Viet Nam and globally, and this offers good prospects for businesses investing in the field, a seminar heard in HCM City on 16 May. Nguyen Ba Hung, general director of Organik Da Lat, said organic farming ...

A draft of the long-awaited Sugar Act is to be revised with recommendations from industry figures at a meeting of the Sugar and Sugar Related Products Merchants and Manufacturers Association on 17 May. Once the revision is complete the act will be submitted to parliament through Myanmar’s ...

The price of fruit in the Mekong Delta has risen recently as the impact of drought and salt water intrusion has caused fruit output to decline, while demand has increased. Tien Giang province authorities have also implemented several measures, including strictly monitoring the salt content of ...

Although data for first four months of this year have shown a slight rise in rice exports, millers and exporters continue to raise concerns on the back of April’s rapid decline. The most recent data on rice exports released by  Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture stated that ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will assign a team to respond to questions about the Vietnamese army’s alleged control of 40,000 hectares of land in Ratanakkiri province submitted by opposition lawmaker Um Sam An, imprisoned in April for his criticism of the government’s border policy. The letter, ...

More than a month has elapsed since the government vowed to strengthen its borders to halt illegal imports of rice, yet little has been done to stem the flow of illicit rice shipments flooding into Cambodia from its foreign neighbours and undermining the export efforts of ...

A lot of companies have had to give up exporting rice because they cannot satisfy the requirements set by Decree 109. In order to be eligible, export companies must have storehouses that can contain 5,000 tons of rice, and a husking workshop with minimum capacity of ...

“The prime minister would like to tell all bureaucrats that this was an expensive lesson. They should bear in mind that they have to adhere to righteousness, integrity and the law,” the spokesman said. “Bureaucrats should not allow themselves to become a tool of politicians.” This ...

In many ‘duels’, it is not the foreign giants with powerful financial capability and experience, but rather the Vietnamese conglomerates who are the winners. With a deal worth VND1.4 trillion, Anco has become the strategic shareholder of Vissan, the move that allows it to officially join the ...

After tens of thousands of chickens had to be killed due to an outbreak of bird flu in Monywa, officials are now preventing transportation of poultry and poultry products outside of the affected area. U Kyi Lwin Oo, deputy chair of the Sagaing Region Livestock Federation, ...