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2021.05.04
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The EU - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has provided the Vietnamese agricultural sector with favourable opportunities for promoting export growth, while also posing challenges in terms of the implementation of the agreement. However, these challenges are also an important lever, helping...
2021.05.04
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An agricultural internship program between Taiwan and the Philippines formally kicked off Thursday, with 50 Filipino farmers expected to be sent to Taiwan for one year after completing a basic Mandarin language course. "The internship program is the first between the Philippines and Taiwan,"...
2021.05.04
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While India battles soaring Covid-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them. Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tries to...
2021.05.04
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A university-launched venture in Japan has been striving to spread its meat quality evaluation technology using artificial intelligence, aiming to make the wagyu beef grading done by human eyes more precise, while using the data to improve cattle breeding. MIJ labo Inc. in the northernmost main...
2021.04.14
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Malaysia’s Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) has expressed interest in developing mango exports to Europe in the coming years. According to a report from Bernama, Fama hopes to export Harum Manis mangoes to European countries in the next three to four years. Mohamad Fasiah Mohd...
2021.04.14
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The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) has kicked off the ‘Thailand Deliver with Safety’ campaign to bolster the value of Thai food exports and boost confidence among buyers and importers of Thai agricultural products, food products and Thai halal food overseas. The goal is to...
2021.04.14
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The irrigated agriculture and rural development project will be an essential contribution to food security, commercial crop farming, and rural development to reduce poverty in Savannakhet province. A construction groundbreaking ceremony for the project took place last week, attended by the...
2021.04.14
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Thirty-one Cambodian tariff lines – mostly agricultural products – now carry the zero rate to neighbouring Vietnam for 2021-2022, the Ministry of Commerce announced on March 25. This comes as the Bilateral Trade Facilitation Agreement for 2021-2022 was formally ratified after the completion of...

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