Watch on Youtube. In this space over the past three months, we have profiled successful entrepreneurs from various arenas of business. All have in common that they are determined to make their ideas w…
Agriculture 4.0
This tech startup is improving yields for farmers in rural Myanmar
For many farmers in rural Myanmar, Facebook embodies the internet. With scarce availability of WiFi, they often reserve their mobile data usage for the social network. That habit is difficult to break…
Sri Lanka’s first agriculture-based app to run on Microsoft Azure
Govipola, the cloud-based mobile app designed to facilitate direct selling platforms for fruit and vegetable farmers—a move aimed at cutting out middlemen and containing food inflation in Sri Lanka, w…
Climate Change: Reaping a Better Future
Climate change is a global challenge and its negative effect impacts agro-ecosystem, agricultural production, and human well-being. It hits the highest where people (farmers) directly depend on agricu…
Farmers need new skills, technology and research to become international
For Cambodia to reach its full potential in agriculture, it needs more investment, diversification in crops, access to new technology, more research and development on related products, the full mecha…
Agripreneurship
The onions from India have arrived, and my suki is selling them: large, bright red, clean and shiny. Initially retailed for P200 per kilo against the less physically appealing local variety’s P250, yo…
Japan to launch project to boost farm productivity in Myanmar
Japan will launch a 390 million yen ($3.6 million) project in May in Myanmar to boost irrigation and agricultural management as part of efforts to increase productivity and eradicate poverty in the So…
Science-based approach required to tackle drought and farmer distress
Water is a fundamental driver of economic development and human well-being across the world. In the near future, water demand is expected to far outpace supply. In South Asia, the impact will be felt …
Digital solutions make farmers more connected: experts
Data-driven digital ecosystems can address bottlenecks in the agriculture value chain, including poor market linkages, lack of access to finance, knowledge and inputs, and shortcomings to an enabling …
Myanmar: Agriculture as an economic driver
It’s common to see roads in Shan State full of trucks loaded with vegetables. The state produces 60 percent of all vegetables consumed within the country. Some of the crops are even exported to neighb…