On a cold winter morning in late November, Maya Adhikari started her day by spreading freshly harvested finger millet grain, locally known as Kalo Ghunde, on a bamboo mat in the front yard of her mode…
Agriculture
Nepal makes farming viable again
As soon as she milks her cow, 52-year-old Punam B K is off, pedaling her bicycle furiously along the highway with a blue milk can in the front basket. By the time she arrives at the Jaya Shiva Ganesh …
Revolutionizing Agriculture with Dual-purpose Crops Bridging Food, Beauty
The “Breeding and Application of Dual-purpose Food Crops for Both Edible and Ornamental Use” project has recently been selected as a finalist in the Global Excellence Engineer Competition,…
Weekly Rubber Report – 2 Dec 2024
Market Fundamentals: The Dollar Index (USDX) topped off 108.00 recently and declined last week. Traders expect another FOMC rate cut on 18 December before year-end. Market fund is likely to return to …
Commodity Market Report – 2 Dec 2024
Gold spot prices fizzled out from USD2721 /oz last week. Moving forward, we reckon the market will stay weak and trade lower within USD2700 – USD2760 /oz. By market correlation, we expect a technical …
Graphjet Technology begins operations at agricultural waste-to-graphite Facility in Malaysia
Graphjet Technology, a manufacturing company focusing on carbon-based materials, producing artificial graphite from biomass waste residues from the process of palm oil, announced the start of operatio…
Yes Minister! Palm oil drives GDP growth, rural wealth creation
Sarawak holds the record for being the state with the largest land areas planted with oil palm. In 2023, the size of the planted area for oil palm in Sarawak was approximately 1.62 million hectares, a…
World Food Day: A call to action for a resilient and equitable global food system
As we mark World Food Day, it is imperative to confront the critical challenges facing our global food system. The combined impacts of the climate crisis and ongoing conflicts are undermining agricult…
Commodity Market Report – 4 Nov 2024
Gold spot prices topped off USD2790 /oz level that is recorded as all-time-high in market. This week, we predict the high volatility in Dollar that might influence the yellow metal. Technically, the m…
Weekly Rubber Report – 4 Nov 2024
Market Fundamentals: Dollar Index (USDX) traded sideways within 103.50 – 104.50 region last week but pulled up on Friday. This week, we foresee very volatile market in Dollar trend due to the uncertai…