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A new type of banana, coined as Mongee, has been developed by a Japanese farmer named Setsuzo Tanaka, a technical development manager of D&T Farm in Okayama, Japan. Mongee banana has an edible peel and was invented by using an innovative deep freezing technique. It is made using “freeze thaw awakening,” a new pesticide-free cultivation

Agriculture is facing the same challenges in worldwide.  These include water scarcity, limited farmland, shrinking labor, chemical use, increasing demand for protein, and food loss. Technology, particularly information technology, has encouraged the youth to engage in the farm sector to address the problem of aging population in the sector.  Companies are also starting to engage

Taiwan plans to ban single-use plastic drinking straws in fast food chains from 2019. Environmental Protection Administration, Minister Lee said today the EPA plans by 2020 to also expand a restriction on free plastic shopping bags to all retail stores that issue uniform invoices while imposing a blanket restriction against offering plastic bags at all

A three-year joint programme (2018-20) has already commenced, under which the Centers of Excellence (COEs) are being set up across the country to train farmers about Israeli farm and water technologies. As many as 28 such centers are being set up under the programme. One new center at Bhuj, Gujarat, will be inaugurated by Prime

India is considering simpler regulations to attract more corporate investment in agriculture as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to keep his promise to double farmers’ income by 2022, an adviser to the government said. Asia’s third-largest economy, more than half the country’s population depend on farming for their livelihood, should relax rules for companies investing

The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) found that the number of Filipino children who were underweight and “underheight” or stunted increased from 2013 to 2015. Underweight and stunted are defined as children with weight and height below the standard for their age. The prevalence of underweight children aged 0-5 years increased from 20.0 to

Vietnam, the world’s number 2 producer had about 20 percent of the world production, Indonesia with 8 percent and Brazil had 34 percent. Japan was the largest Asian market with about 480,000 tons in 2016.  South Korea has 167,000, and Malaysia has 117,000 tons. Among the ASEAN peers, the Philippines had the lowest output and minimal