Year: 2018

The Department of Agricultures’ Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) has confirmed outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in countries like China, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. With the spreading of the disease, the BAI has banned the entry of domestic and wild pigs, and other products like pork meat and semen from these affected

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

A self-sustaining ‘future food city’, featuring a mixed crop cultivation of vegetables, seaweed and fish, could be established off the coast of Singapore. Combining hydroponics and aquaculture farming technologies, the Oceanus Aquapolis City will be an environmentally-friendly, multi-storey floating and closed-contained farming platform. It will build  on unused sea space, becoming a solution to land-intensive

Asian venture capitalists are exploring whether insects and lab-grown meat can help meet Asia’s growing food appetite. Shanghai-based Bits x Bites, the search for sustainable food has extended to silkworms. Last year, the company invested in Bugsolutely, a local startup that is developing insect-based snacks.  It  made its name selling cricket-based pasta which was rich

“Rising demand for high-quality agricultural products in China has created more markets for Southeast Asian exporters, according to a report by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Benefiting from China’s growing appetite,  countries  in the region, including Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, are exporting more tropical fruits, while strong growth in Chinese demand