Japan's exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products rose 3.7% to a record high in 2024, despite China's ban on seafood imports following Tokyo Electric Power's (9501.T), opens new tab water discharge from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Exports last year totaled 1.507 trillion yen...
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TVBS
2025.01.15
20
Deputy agricultural minister warned on Wednesday (Jan. 15) that revising the Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures (財劃法) could severely impact the Ministry of Agriculture's (MOA, 農業部) initiatives. The Legislative Yuan (立法院) passed the amendment in December 2024,...
Focus Taiwan
2025.01.08
4
The first batch of fresh pork from Taiwan was shipped to Singapore on Wednesday after the city state announced in November 2024 it would reopen its market to imports of Taiwanese pork for the first time in 15 years, a Taiwanese pork producer said.
The shipment of 32.6 metric tons of chilled pork...
Taipei Times
2024.12.21
10
Taiwan and Japan on Thursday in Tokyo signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on mutual recognition of plant varieties, the Agriculture and Food Agency said in a news release.
Following negotiations that lasted for more than a year, the MOU was signed by Taiwan-Japan Relations Association...
France24
2024.12.20
5
Beijing has banned or slapped retaliatory tariffs on more than US$12 billion worth of Australian exports, from wine to timber, during years of soured ties with Canberra.
The lobster trade, worth US$500,000 a year, was the last of a number of major Australian exports to remain under sanctions...
Mr. Lee Kyong Won, Agricultural Economist, FFTC
2024.12.17
44
In 2024, FFTC-AP platform received a total of 45 manuscripts from 13 contracted partners in 10 countries. FFTC analyzed the content of these articles using ChatGPT to identify key agricultural policy trends for 2024.
Below is a word cloud of the results of analyzing key phrases (phrases...
Worldbank
2024.12.12
3
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a new project in Uttar Pradesh (UP) to increase farmers’ incomes through improved crop productivity, adoption of digital technologies and climate-resilient practices, and strengthened market linkages. The project also aims to leverage $15...
RTI
2024.12.10
8
In an effort to create an agricultural industry without waste, the Agriculture Ministry has been researching ways to use surplus resources in fertilizer, livestock feed, energy, and other materials. This Tuesday, they released the results of their recycling efforts from recent years.
2023 Data...