Argentina has officially opened its meat market to Japanese fresh beef, giving Japan a boost to agricultural export ambitions.
Shipments of eligible Japanese beef have been allowed to enter Argentina without any age limit conditions, the Japanese agriculture ministry said on June 29.
Japan will...
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For Japanese apple growers, the Canadian door finally opened.
Canada has relaxed stringent requirements for imported apples, such as mandatory production methods and disinfection, as long as apple growers meet certain conditions, the Japanese agriculture ministry said on June 8.
Technically,...
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South Korea has pledged to help Cambodia tackle some of the main issues affecting the agriculture sector.
The pledge was made during talks last week between Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture and Oh Nak-young, South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia.
Cambodia is a producer of agricultural raw...
2018.07.19
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South Korea's exports of agricultural products and food hit a record high in the first half of this year due to strong demand from China and Southeast Asian nations, a government report showed Tuesday.
Outbound shipments of food and agricultural products reached 3.55 billion U.S. dollars in...
2018.07.15
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With various crops grown in the district possessing immense health benefits being pushed to the verge of extinction as their value was not being understood by a majority of the people, the rural municipality formed Masta Small Farmer Cooperative.
It has organized the farmers to run a campaign to...
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China has lifted a ban on importing British beef lasting more than 20 years that was triggered by the “mad cow disease” outbreak, the U.K. government said Wednesday.
“China has today lifted its long-standing ban on exports of beef from the U.K., in a landmark move for British...
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State-run National Food Authority (NFA) is intensifying its monitoring of rice prices to ensure that subsidized rice goes directly to the marginalized sector as cheaper imported rice floods the market.
This as NFA administrator Jason Aquino warned of alleged reports on diversion or adulteration of...
2018.06.27
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China said on Tuesday it will remove import tariffs on soybeans from Bangladesh, India, Laos, South Korea and Sri Lanka, after Beijing hit imports of the oilseed from the United States with a hefty penalty as part of an escalating trade dispute.
The Ministry of Finance said the cut will be...