From Food Navigator-Asia, “NZ’s food exports have long been dominated by lamb and dairy, but new reports highlighted the rapidly-emerging categories which displayed double-digit growth rates. These involved 51 high-growth categories. On top are: sweet corn, cherries, mixed preserved fruits, blueberries, chilled salmon and avocadoes, Manuka honey, chilled whole salmon, filled chocolate bars,
“Farmers, investors, bankers and other business partners from the different sectors of the shrimp industry gathered at the Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) shrimp farm in Zambales to witness the successful harvest of white shrimp (also known as Vannamei) from the pioneering Best Small Farm (BSF) project. Seeking to pave the way for a new era
Korea’s domestic coffee market reached a record high in 2017 of 11.7 trillion won (about 26.5 billion cups) as the demand for brew coffee continues to rise, according to the Korea Customs Service. The country’s coffee market grew by more than threefold from three trillion won a decade earlier. Coffee mixes ranked no. 1 with
“The Department of Agriculture (DA) has announced that the country has achieved a 103-percent self-sufficiency in yellow corn production last year, the first in more than two decades. Quoting a report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said gross yellow corn output in 2017 reached 5.811 million tons, which translated
Vietnam’s province of Ben Tre will develop its well-known Xiem coconut through increased market value and new farming technologies as the product is not competitive in the world market, particularly with Thailand as the latter has higher quality and lower production costs. Ben Tre, known for its 70,000 hectares of coconut land, harvests around 600