Agriculture

Bad weather, fluctuating prices and high risk in agricultural cultivation has made foreign investors hesitate in pouring capital into the sector. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Can Tho branch, for the first six months of this year, the Mekong Delta attracted ...

Thailand’s rice market is expected to face a price war next year as a result of oversupply that will lower prices in both domestic and export markets, while the stronger baht could hurt the competitiveness of rice shipments, exporters warn. Charoen Laothammatas, president of the Thai ...

China plans to increase its rice import quota from Cambodia next year as the country braces for possible cutbacks by the European Union to limit milled rice imports from least developed countries. Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said on August 2 that his Chinese counterpart Gao Hucheng agreed ...

The United States Department of Agriculture may allow the import of star apples from Việt Nam, Việt Nam’s Commercial Counsellor in the United States, Đào Trần Nhân has said. The import is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. According to the proposal from ...

Insecticide prices in Myanmar are much higher than they should be, because sellers are using a credit system, an official has said, with some farmers paying three or four times the market price to keep pests away from their crops. U Aung Kyaw Oo, director of ...

HCM City plans to launch a pilot programme on using technology to control and trace the origin of pork in an effort to ensure consumer health and benefits. Dao Ha Trung, chairman of the HCM City High Technology Association, said consumers can check the product origin ...

The Vietnamese government on 27 July agreed in principle to provide a grant of $2 million to Cambodia to build a model market aimed at boosting cross-border trade between the two countries, officials at Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce said. The market will be constructed on 1.5 ...

The country posted a trade surplus of nearly US$1.8 billion in the first seven months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office. GSO experts attributed the surplus to a rise in export values, while import revenues declined. The nation’s export turnover during the period ...

Grain by grain, truckload by truckload, Laos’ section of the Mekong river is being dredged of sand to make cement—a commodity being devoured by a Chinese-led building boom in the capital. But the hollowing out of the riverbed is also damaging a vital waterway that feeds ...

The area covered by palm oil plantations worldwide could double without damaging protected areas or sensitive forests, Austrian researchers said on Tuesday (July 26).Researchers from the Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) studied satellite maps from South-east Asia, Africa and Latin America to ...