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CHINA - The Chinese government has promised to back the sustainable and hygienic production of meat and food, writes ThePigSite senior editor, Chris Harris from the China International Meat Industry Summit in Beijing. CIMIE: China Looks to Sustainable Production of Safe Meat ...
Rice is a staple commodity for people in China, India and many other Asian countries. Out of a world production of about 600 million tonnes of rice (paddy), more than 50% is accounted for by the two Asian giants, China and India. Since rice is the staple food grain, very little ...
The Cabinet-level Council of Agriculture (COA) is set to help sell more than 8,000 additional tons of locally grown bananas by the end of August to further stabilize the price of the fruit, according to a statement released Friday. The council has taken actions to battle a banana ...
TESCO will jointly expand China's biggest self-owned farm in the Xiang an District of Xiamen. The retailer signed a contract with Xiamen Ruyi Group last Friday for this purpose. The farm will provide fresh vegetable at a low price for the company's stores which are planned in ...
TAIWAN - Grouper aquaculture is to benefit from a new economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China. With Taiwan's cultured grouper to be given zero tariff treatment under a landmark cross-Taiwan Strait trade pact, many grouper farmers plan to expand their grouper ...
At the Mango Expo in Guangzhou Pakistani mangoes got an overwhelming response according to Waheed Ahmed, Chairman of All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association (PFVA). Orders for three tons of melons were received per day. Pakistan had planned ...
Source: MOA Press Office Since the heavy rain on June 18, the Ministry of Agriculture, along with relevant local authorities, has scaled up measures to deal with the disaster and emergency response according to the IV level response to major natural disasters in agriculture, and ...
China has lowered minimum protein levels in raw milk in the country s latest effort to stamp out the use of melamine in the dairy industry. Following the revelation last week that more melamine tainted dairy materials had been seized by Chinese authorities, the country has gone ...
MANILA (Reuters) C Typhoon Conson sliced through the Philippines' main island of Luzon, killing 22 people, felling trees and snapping transmission lines that could leave millions without power for at least two days, officials said on Wednesday. Twelve people were injured and 57 ...
XINING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Qinghai Province plans to release seven million of a rare fish species into China's largest lake before the end of the year, to boost fish stocks, local authorities said Wednesday. Qinghai will release six million naked carp, only ...
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The idea of a fish taking directions from a human, might sound absurd, but the animal robotics industry is developing just that. Developers hope, that one day, humans could tell schools of fish where and where not to swim. This will help keep them ...
China reduced the 2010 rice output forecast to 196.6 million metric tons from an estimate of 197.3 million tons made a month ago, the China National Grain & Oils Information Center said today in its July report. The 2010 production forecasts for other crops were maintained at 168 ...
BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Food safety authorities have seized 64 tonnes of raw dairy materials contaminated with the toxic chemical, melamine, in a dairy plant in northwest China's Qinghai Province, the provincial quality watchdog said. Tests of samples of the milk powder ...
TAIWAN - Aquaculture production and abalone processing company Oceanus Group is to convert 150 million existing shares into Taiwan Depository Receipts or TDRs. Oceanus plans to list the TDRs on the Taiwan Stock Exchange according to a report on Channel Asia News. It is the second ...
CHINA - Charoen Pokphand Group and the Carlyle Group have announced the acquisition of interests in C.P. Pokphand by Carlyle for US$175 million. The investment is said to capitalise on the growth potential of China's agricultural industry increasing demand for quality nutrients ...
Kolkata: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar came together in Kolkata to initiate a green revolution in the eastern states of Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and eastern UP. Their initial budget is Rs 400 core and their model: ...
More melamine tainted dairy materials have been seized by Chinese food safety authorities, raising suspicions that it may be from the same batch that should have been destroyed following the 2008 scandal. Around 64 tonnes of raw dairy materials have been seized from a plant in ...
Farmers in southern Taiwan Wednesday called for the government to continue buying bananas in an effort to alleviate the impact from a glut that has sent market prices into a tailspin. Tsai He-hsun, head of the agriculture division of the Meishan Village office in southern Chiayi ...
CHINA - Mexico's Agricultural Minister Francisco Mayorga Castaneda yesterday said that the country is seeking to start pork exports to China. "China-Mexico trade is still very low. There is great interest on both sides, but we have not completely resolved some food and animal ...
MANILA, Philippines - Much has been said and written about hybrid rice C that this miracle crop is a big boost to our rice production program, that it is profitable and that hybrid rice technology would cut down rice importation hereby saving for our country billions of pesos ...
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