The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Arlington, Va., Walmart Brazil, Brazil’s Marfrig Group and ranchers joined forces to spread social and environmental best practices in cattle production activities in the Brazilian Amazon Region.
Vietnamese seafood exports for the first quarter of 2013 were down 7.5 to eight percent at $1.2 billion, and the decline accelerated in March to 17-18% at about $447-450 million.
China's pork prices, which weigh heavily in inflation calculations, registered a sharp decline in March, putting downward pressure on the country's inflation while leading to widespread industry losses.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has introduced Royal Gala apples at Fresh Produce India, a forum for the food industry, organised here recently.
While some French apple growers were fortunate enough to have good volumes of fruit this season, there was a shortage of apples throughout Europe this year.
Cermaq ASA has secured its future control of more than 50 per cent of the shares in Copeinca through agreements with Copeinca ASA and Major Shareholders of the company.
Dias Aquaculture, one of the three largest groups in the Mediterranean aquaculture industry, has announced its merger with Selonda. Both Greek companies farm sea bass and sea bream.
China Fishery Group is still trying to figure out how to react to a move by Oslo, Norway-listed Cermaq’s purchase of a controlling interest in Copeinca’s shares.
Market Year (MY)2013/14 wheat production is forecast at 24.0 million tons, up three percent from last year, however, four percent less than MY2011/12’s record production of 25 million tons.
Damage to winter wheat in Oklahoma may be worse than initially expected, according to an Oklahoma State University extension specialist who toured the southwestern part of the state.
Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. will invest $19.1 million in its facilities at Leongatha in Victoria, to lift the site’s Ultra High Temperature (UHT) milk manufacturing output by approximately 70 million litres a year.
The Chinese government has started to purchase frozen pork and add it to reserves to stabilize prices, which have slumped for three months, the country's top economic planning agency said Sunday.
The monthly sampling will now be replaced by surface monitoring of the mussel bed areas and used to inform the investigations into radium contamination at Dalgety Bay.
Amira Nature Foods, a United Arab Emirates-based provider of packaged Indian specialty rice, has inked a $8m agreement with a new South Korean customer to supply Indian medium short grain specialty rice.
Commercial hatcheries set 200 million eggs in incubators during the week ending March 30, 2013, up 1 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week in 2012
The US Department of Agriculture is achieving results from the agency's efforts to support exports of US cattle, poultry and other agricultural products, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.