Gold prices shot up last week due to flight of fund into safe haven. The bulls broke above USD1960 /oz on Friday and took traders by many surprises. This week, we forecast the trend will encounter pro…
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Weekly Rubber Report – 20 Mar 2023
Market Fundamentals: Rubber prices weighed lower last week following the decline in Crude demand. The turmoil of financial market in U.S. banking crisis has spread to European continent and alerted th…
Sikkim: Nirmala Sitharaman applauds the people for driving organic farming revolution
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman applauded the people of Sikkim for driving the organic farming revolution. She applauded how the State has risen beyond its attraction to trigger tourism and …
Commodity Market Report – 13 Mar 2023
Gold prices bounced off USD1810 /oz support last week. This week, we reckon the trend will climb higher and trade from USD1850 – USD1900 /oz region. Small correction in Dollar is expected which will p…
Weekly Rubber Report – 13 Mar 2023
Market Fundamentals: Crude prices weighed down Rubber demand last week. The U.S. nonfarm payroll added 311,000 jobs and surpassed the estimate. Last week, the collapse of Silvergate crypto-banks Silic…
ASEAN’s Agricultural Climate Resilience: Is Strengthening Domestic Production Enough?
To achieve global food security, there is a need not only to increase domestic production, but also to adapt to the climatic impacts on agriculture. This is particularly pertinent in Southeast Asia. I…
Revitalizing rivers of life in Asean
Many of the largest cities in the world were built beside rivers. This is also the case in Southeast Asia, a region that is rich in biological diversity. Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City prospered because o…
Saving South Asian farming communities from climate change: Learnings from a project
Climate change impacts on agriculture can have significant social, economic and political consequences, particularly in developing countries such as Nepal that rely heavily on agriculture for their li…
Economic managers eye modernizing agri sector as inflation hits historic high
The Philippines is looking at modernizing the agriculture sector and seeking a whole-of-society approach to combat the continuous increase in consumer prices, with inflation the highest among ASEAN co…
Nuclear Science Helps Bangladeshi Farmers Resist Climate Change
Over the past two decades, Bangladesh, with its low-lying river delta and lengthy coastline, has been listed among the top ten countries most affected by climate change, according to the Global Climat…