The Ministry of Labor (MOL) has agreed to a proposal by the Council of Agriculture (COA) to increase the number of agricultural migrant workers from 6,000 to 12,000 and relax the required ratio of local to migrant workers on individual farms to 1:1.
Paul Su, head of the Workforce Development...
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Green Queen
2023.03.31
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South Koreas North Gyeongsang Province has announced the opening of the North Gyeongsang Cellular Agriculture Industry Support Center. This 2,309 facility was built over six years with a total investment of KRW 9 billion (approx. USD$7 million), and it aims to develop biomaterials and support...
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2023.03.26
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Chantanon Wannakejohn, deputy secretary-general of the Office of Agricultural Economy (OAE), said agriculture growth would increase by 2 to 3 per cent to reach THB 700bn to THB 800bn in 2023.
In the first quarter of this year, the sector recorded GDP growth of 5.5 per cent, equivalent to THB 182...
Deutsche Welle
2023.03.01
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With 2023 declared as the UN International Year of Millets, several events and activities are expected to be rolled out across India aimed at spreading awareness about the ancient grain.
India's push to popularize millets has been in the works since at least 2012-13, when the government-mandated...
Vietnam Plus
2023.03.01
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The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture’s Data and IT Centre, in collaboration with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), launched an agriculture digitalisation strategy called the “e-Agriculture National Strategy” on February 28.
The strategy aims to harness data and...
Radio Taiwan International
2023.02.27
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Taiwan plans to import five million eggs by the end of March to offset the egg shortage. That came from Agriculture Council official Chiang Wen-chuan (江文全) on Tuesday, who said some of the eggs have already arrived in Taiwan.
Taiwan has also been trying to make up for the egg shortage by...
ZAWYA
2023.02.27
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The government is finalizing a three-year agriculture development program to raise the country's food production, according to the Department of Agriculture.
The program, spanning from 2023 to 2025, aims to promote agricultural productivity, particularly on rice, corn, high-value crops,...
Asia News Network
2023.02.22
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Prices of chicken and eggs are expected to be floated after June as part of the government’s efforts to overcome the food shortage, says Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu.
He said the prices would be floated so that the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry...