It’s been a privilege to attend China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition (CIAME) for the third time. This year the exhibition was held at Shandong’s Qingdao in China. I have attended the …
Agriculture
Reshaping Philippines agriculture through farm tourism
At the recent 6th Philippine Farm Tourism Conference held at the Marco Polo Plaza in Cebu City I was pleasantly surprised to hear that big landlords from different places across the country had joined…
ADB to develop agriculture, improve food safety in Nepal
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$50mn policy-based loan to help support the Government of Nepal’s reforms to improve food safety measures, enhance agricultural trade standards, and p…
Malaysian PM: Govt wants private firms to invest in large scale vegetable farming
The government is encouraging private firms and government-owned companies such as Khazanah Nasional Bhd to invest in large scale fruit and vegetable farming to reduce the nation’s food import bill, w…
Sustainable agriculture: Thinking beyond subsidies
Agriculture remains the mainstay of the Nepalis, hence making it sustainable is important. The conventional agricultural system, which was of a subsistence type, used pesticides on a large scale, whic…
Felcra and Qatar’s Baladna to set up Malaysia’s largest dairy farm
Felcra Bhd and Baladna Food Industries WLL, Qatar’s largest dairy producer, aims to set up Malaysia’s largest dairy farm in the next two years, in line with the country’s National Food Security Policy…
Nepal: Getting youth back to agriculture
Agriculture can be shaped as an attractive sector for youths. For this, we have to move beyond subsistence resource intensive agriculture while still maintaining traditional indigenous knowledge I am …
Myanmar aims to become seed exporter in next five or ten years
Myanmar is working to become a seed-exporting country in the next five or ten years, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation. Dr. Ye Tin Tun, Director-General of the Agricul…
Broad Coalition to Ramp Up Food Safety in Myanmar
YANGON—Myanmar’s food safety advocacy groups plan to bring around 400 stakeholders from the food industry together to discuss food safety issues and challenges in the country. Myanmar Innovative Life …
Malaysia turning to food crops as palm oil price falls
Malaysia is looking to diversify into food crops, in the face of fluctuating commodity prices and Western countries’ hostility towards palm oil. In an interview with The Straits Times, Agriculture and…