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BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Economists and analysts Thursday downplayed concerns over food security following a reported surge in rice imports from Vietnam since May, amid fears that this year's droughts and floods in China may affect grain production and push up prices. ...
Farmers in China's arid west are taking advantage of the region's ample sunshine to increase farm output. In the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a mostly Muslim community, many farmers have built greenhouses so they can grow chilis, cucumbers and tomatoes all year ...
Chuah said many countries, including garlic producers, were competing with each other to buy garlic from China since April. Most of them are now raising a stink over the price increase. Importers paying US$3,000 (RM9,600) for a tonne of garlic now compared to US$800 (RM2,560) ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazil wants to boost trade with China in agricultural products, and will export more pork to and import more fish from China in the next few years, Brazilian Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi said Thursday. The two countries enjoy a very good ...
BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Food poisoning in China killed 58 between April and June, up 20.8 percent year on year from 2009, the Ministry of Health said here Thursday. A total of 58 food poisoning incidents also sickened 1,945 others in the second quarter, the ministry said in ...
With the largest population in the world China appears to be the ideal investment market. To be able to obtain a share in this market Roland Berger Strategy Consultants annually investigate the Chinese consumer. In addition to brand awareness the Chinese consumer has discovered ...
CANADA - The Canadian Pork Council hopes to replace imported pork on the plates of Canadian consumers with Canadian pork through the creation of a new national pork market development organization, writes Bruce Cochrane. A new national pork market development organisation is ...
BEIJING, Aug.13 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will implement a regulation on the disposal of garbage for restaurants that says each restaurant has to open the amount and destination of its food waste to inspection and introduce supervision of the disposal process. That was disclosed by a ...
AMMAN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A total of 26 Chinese nationals suffered food poisoning early Sunday, with 25 were discharged from hospital later in the day and one still under treatment, according to medical sources. Twenty-six Chinese nationals working at Al Hasan Industrial Estate ...
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese authorities have beefed up grain production for the second half of the year, since frequent natural disasters and recent fluctuations in international grain prices have placed significant challenges on domestic grain crop production. "The ...
HARBIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- As natural disasters cut farm yields across the world, agricultural experts believe science and technology and international cooperation can play a key role in fighting extreme weather and ensuring food supply for the fast growing world. "We are far ...
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A clinical investigation has found no evidence that milk powder made by a Chinese company caused three infant girls to grow breasts, China's Health Ministry announced Sunday. At a press conference in Beijing, ministry spokesman Deng Haihua said the ...
Chinese authorities have beefed up grain production for the second half of the year, since frequent natural disasters and recent fluctuations in international grain prices have placed significant challenges on domestic grain crop production. "The Chinese rice bowl should not fall ...
BEIJING Tsingtao Brewery Co., China's second-largest brewer by volume, said Monday its profit for the first half of the year climbed 29.74 percent year on year as sales of its high-end beers surged. Net profit totaled 830 million yuan ($122 million) in the first six months as ...
VICTORIAN stone fruit growers will soon have access to the Taiwanese market five years after they were locked out. Summerfruit Australia chief executive John Moore said the ban was lifted on white-flesh peaches, nectarines, and cherries, but not plums. Mr Moore said quarantine ...
Traders are forced to raise the price of garlic due to depleting supply from flood-stricken China, said Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said the situation could not be prevented and controlled by the government as bad ...
CHINA - Shandong Oriental Ocean Group has agreed to stock its new chain of premium seafood stores opening in China with New Zealand greenshell mussels. A delegation from Opotiki in the Eastern Bay of Plenty - which has resource consent to set up the country's biggest mussel farm ...
DALIAN, China Tsingtao Brewery Co. plans to acquire an equity stake in Asahi Breweries Ltd. subsidiary Hangzhou Xihu Beer Asahi Co., The Economic Observer reported Monday. Asahi Breweries owns 55 percent of Xihu Beer through a Hong Kong subsidiary. The remaining 45 percent is ...
Ginger prices in China have risen about 18% in a 33-day period, according to a report Monday in the 21st Century Business Herald. The spice, commonly used in Chinese cooking as well as beverages, rose to 13.14 yuan ($1.94) per kilogram as of Aug. 15, according to the report which ...
Taiwan's agricultural exports grew by 19.3 percent in the first half of this year to US$1.87 billion, another sign of the country's recovery from the economic slump, according to statistics released Thursday by the Council of Agriculture. Eels, groupers, butterfly orchids, ...
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