At the top of a three-storey building in Hong Kong, with car horns blasting on the streets below, Jim Fung teaches a dozen students how to thin out choi sum vegetables.
“Always use the resources you have,” the instructor said as he placed shredded office paper into soil-filled plastic...
Policy-Related News
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Indonesia and Malaysia have long occupied the spotlight for oil palm plantations and their adverse consequences, including deforestation, habitat loss, climate change, and struggles with indigenous and local people. But other Southeast Asian countries are fast joining the two oil palm giants, with...
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Malaysia signed a pact on Thursday for exports of palm oil to south Asia next year, amid uncertainty over trade with India after its dealers last month urged a boycott of palm oil from the southeast Asian nation.
In October, India’s top vegetable oil trade body told members to stop buying...
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Poppy war, or perhaps poppy skirmish. India’s heavily regulated poppy economy – the milky white fluid from seeds, called latex, is the mainstay of illegal drugs trade around the world – is witnessing a small but intense conflict over the Central Board of Narcotics (CBN) decision...
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On the outskirts of Patiala, much of a five-acre patch is about to go up in smoke. Within minutes, Karnail Singh’s golden field is blanketed in fumes that release trace gases and particulate matter. In village after village of Punjab, the scene is repeated as farmers set their fields on fire...
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The Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday extended relaxed fumigation norms for imported onions up to December 31, in a bid to improve domestic supply and check prices that have skyrocketed up to Rs 100 per kg.
On November 6, the ministry had liberalised fumigation provisions under the Plant...
2019.11.04
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Farmers’ groups are objecting to pressure from the US for South Korea to relinquish its “developing country” status within the World Trade Organization (WTO).
"Farmer’s Road,” an association of five farmers’ groups including the Korean Peasants’...
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South Korea’s trade surplus with the United States has decreased nearly 7 percent after the two countries revised their free trade agreement (FTA) this year upon the request of the U.S. concerning about widening trade deficit with Korea, but trade volume between the two has stayed strong...