Australia and Indonesia concluded negotiations for the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or IA-CEPA on Friday, which will allow Australian farmers to export 500,000 mt/year of tariff-free feed grains to Indonesia.
Under the new agreement, Australia will gain access...
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The Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos have issued a dispatch on suspending the import of pork, piglets and all pork products from China due to concerns about the spread of African hog cholera into the Southeast Asia country.
The Lao Minister of Agriculture and...
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Japan’s Agriculture Minister Ken Saito has stressed the government will double its efforts to help farmers enable to keep growing products that people want to eat in order to improve the country’s food self-sufficiency.
The calorie-based rate of self-sufficiency remained flat at 37.78...
2018.09.21
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Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate remained the second lowest level in 2017, due to steadily declining consumption of rice, the country’s staple food, and increasing meat imports, despite a recover of harvest in northern Japan.
The calorie-based rate of food self-sufficiency in 2017...
2018.09.17
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Some of Japanese food exports in the first six months of 2018 broke the previous record set last year, as the popularity of Japanese dish, or washoku, has hit new heights around the globe in recent years.
Shipments of Japanese beef, for example, jumped 37% to 10.8 billion yen in the first half...
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Athletes who finished in the top three received Japanese flower bouquets at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held in Tokyo on Aug. 9-14.
This is a part of efforts that the Japan Flower Growers Association (JFGA) has been pushing. The organization aims to bring the floral tradition back...
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Japan’s fruits export to Malaysia is expanding significantly. Notably, the export of Japanese pears and peaches is experiencing a big surge. As the number of Malaysian travelers grew, a greater number of the Malaysians have become big fans of Japanese fruits and they buy more...
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Japan is planning to extend best-before dates for pork products in a bit to boost chilled exports, informed sources have said.
The agriculture and health miniseries have set up a panel to look at hygienic controls abroad and review guidelines for setting best-before dates.
The first meeting of...