Agriculture
Agricultural management systems and technologies
Hai Duong calls for hi-tech agricultural investment
The northern province of Hải Dương will create favourable conditions and offer preferential policies for businesses investing in high-tech agriculture, post-harvest preservation, slaughterhouse construction and production chain development, provincial authorities said.Keep reading ...
The most neglected threat to public health in China is toxic soil
Tang Donghua, a wiry 47-year-old farmer wearing a Greenpeace T-shirt, smokes a cigarette and gesticulates towards his paddy fields in the hills of southern Hunan province. The leaves of his rice plants poke about a foot above water. Mr Tang says he expects to harvest ...
Feasibility study begins on Borikhamxay irrigation project
The Department of Irrigation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has agreed with China’s Hunan Construction Engineering Group No. 2 Company on a feasibility study of the Nam Khu irrigation project in Pakkading district, Borikhamxay province.A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Vientiane on ...
Farmers to bear cost of some irrigation projects
The private sector, farmers and manufacturers will have to contribute their share to upgrading, repairing and building new irrigation systems for their use, according to a draft Law on Irrigation discussed on June 8 by the National Assembly. The Government will give priority to building reservoirs ...
JICA grants 32b kip for clean agriculture development
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has granted more than 32 billion kip (US$4 million) to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to carry out a brand new clean agriculture development project.The project purposes the supply of clean agriculture (CA) products, which includes organic agriculture and ...
Tobacco deal leaves farmers out
It has been more than six months since Vietnam agreed to waive duties on 3,000 tonnes of Cambodian dried tobacco exports per year, yet local smallholder tobacco farmers claim the agreement has done little to improve their incomes, with some accusing large tobacco companies of ...
Laos, China to partner in water resources management
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and a Chinese company have inked an agreement on partnership in water resources management in Laos. The Minutes of Discussion were signed in Vientiane on May 11 between Director General of Water Resources Management Mr Chanthanet Boualapha and President ...
South Koreans eye farm sector
Cambodian agriculture has huge untapped potential for South Korean investors, according to the secretary-general of the ASEAN-Korean Centre. Kim Young-sun led nine leading Korean companies specialising in agriculture at a seminar organised jointly with the Council for the Development of Cambodia. On Monday, the group ...
High feed prices cut into animal husbandry’s profits
Input material prices have decreased, but the price of animal feed remains unchanged, and, as a result, breeders have incurred heavy losses as the live pork price has dropped dramatically. Nguyen Thi Dung in Vinh Huu commune of Tien Giang province complained that the live pork ...
HCM City seeks approval for solid-waste treatment plan
The People’s Committee of HCM City has submitted a solid-waste treatment plan to 2025 to the Ministry of Construction, which will seek approval from the central Government. The plan calls for re-use and recycling of waste by using advanced waste treatment technologies instead of the ...
