Strong demand from Indonesia and Vietnam has seen a big jump in the numbers of live cattle exported, with August representing the largest monthly shipment this calendar year.
As per the First Advance Estimates of the production of major Kharif crops for 2018-19, released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare recently, the production of grains was about 141.59 million tonne (MT).
Sweet corn breeding has lagged behind advances in field corn because this sector has a smaller market footprint, but an agronomist at Iowa State University is contributing to a national effort aimed at narrowing that gap.
Sabah, the second largest state of Malaysia, has many native fruits such as tarap, bambangan, durian dalit or red-fleshed durian and many other wild fruit species have great market potential.
Qatar is expected to achieve 100 percent self-sufficiency in terms of the production of the most popular fruits and vegetables soon, as the country’s largest greenhouse facility is likely to be operational by next year.
More than half of the Queensland government's million-dollar rescue package to the strawberry industry in the wake of the needle crisis will be spent on an awareness campaign.
Egypt has started planting two million palm trees of new varieties to meet international demands, as part of the country’s strategic step to further develop the date industry.
According to The Star, Malaysia will need at least another 3,000 ha of land to grow MD2 pineapples if it wants to be able to meet the demand of domestic and overseas markets.
Dry spells across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week will help dry the first beans of the October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday, as they look for a higher minimum price this year.
