SOURCE: Shang-Su Wu, Nanyang Technological University/East Asia Forum Security concerns related to Taiwan’s economic dependence on China have surfaced from time to time since engagement across the Taiwan Strait deepened from the early 1990s. Former Taiwanese president Lee Ting-Hui launched the Southbound Policy in the mid-1990s to diversify economic partnersContinue Reading
SOURCE: Zhao Yimeng, China Daily Academy based in Hainan province aims to help lift people out of poverty China plans to help countries in the Lancang-Mekong region tap their banana-growing potential, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences said. Academy vice-president Xie Jianghui said the banana industry has played aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Stephan Kueffner, Bloomberg Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter, is on high alert for its vital crop as neighboring Peru grapples with an outbreak of a fungus deadly to the tropical fruit. “We’ve reinforced practically everything,” Agriculture Minister Xavier Lazo said in an interview, after confirming with Peru’s governmentContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) as well as farmers are expecting a bumper mango production following smooth formation of the tender fruits in Rangpur agriculture region. The process of tender fruit’s formation on mango trees continues smoothly predicting its bumper production in the region’sContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joshua Minchin, New Food Arla Foods Ingredients is partnering with other bodies in a new four-year project to turn papaya fruit into a nutritious and affordable snack for low-income consumers in Ethiopia. Led by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the project brings together multiple public-private partners. TheirContinue Reading
The Malaysian National Fruit Conference (Buah 2021) was successfully organized virtually by the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) in collaboration with International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) from the 6th to 8th April 2021.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Guojiguoshu TRANSLATION: Jing Zang, Produce Report According to a press conference held on March 31 in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province, the country’s largest durian-growing region, a new quality inspection program for Thai durians has recently been implemented throughout the province. As of the date of the press conference, three durianContinue Reading
SOURCE: Anne Ewbank, Atlas Obscura California’s deadly, damaging wildfires worsen by the year. The state’s naturally dry landscapes, parched by a changing climate, have turned into tinderboxes. A stray match or lightning strike has the capacity to incinerate forests, fields, and neighborhoods. Last year saw a summer and fall ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Xinhua/Global Times Kenya’s exports of avocados hit 72,000 tons in 2020, up from 59,000 tons recorded in the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday. “The increase in export volumes was partly due to enhanced cultivation of avocado by Kenyan farmers over the past five years,” Benjamin Tito,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Avila Geraldine, New Straits Times A team of University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) researchers has taken the initiative to teach Tamparuli villagers how to transform overripe pineapples into vinegar products through technology intervention. The team consisting food technologists and scientists from various disciplines, had last month, gone to Kampung RungusContinue Reading
NTUC FairPrice, a supermarket chain in Singapore, said Saturday it had removed all Taiwanese pineapples from its store shelves, as consumers had complained of core rot in the fruit.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Asia News Network, Phnom Penh Post Vietnam’s agricultural sector has determined to improve quality to meet import market standards and achieve the export target of $10 billion by 2030. Vietnam Vegetables Association secretary-general Dang Phuc Nguyen said new-generation free trade agreements (FTAs) such as the EU-Vietnam Free Trade AgreementContinue Reading