Relieved farmers in Australia's export-focused west are celebrating good rainfall at the end of the winter wheat-planting window, although conditions remain parched in the eastern states.
The rain has provided relief to some parts of the country after difficult conditions threatened to cut...
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Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, launched its proprietary ET Agricultural Brain at The Computing Conference 2018: Shanghai Summit today. The cutting-edge AI program has been adopted already by a number of leading pig farming and fruit and vegetable growing enterprises in...
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The contribution by agriculture to the Lao economy continued to decline in 2017, local daily Vientiane Times reported Thursday.
According to a recent report from the Bank of the Lao PDR, the central bank of Laos, the agriculture sector saw only 2.8 percent growth in 2017 and contributed just 16...
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Australia will push for expanded access to Europe’s agricultural markets in free trade talks with the EU after its member states gave the green light for negotiations to start within weeks.
The trade minister, Steve Ciobo, has said Australia would aim for a “high-quality,...
2018.06.04
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Export surge to other countries marks good prospects for Vietnamese rice.
Vietnam’s rice export sector is showing signs of reducing its dependence on China with other markets picking up the slack, according the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
In its monthly report for May,...
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Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the country's export of rice rose nearly 40 per cent in value in the first four months of 2018 due to demand from Indonesia.
The country's rice exports rose to US$1.11bn in value and 23.8 per cent to 2.2mmt in the first...
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Vietnam has earned nearly 1.7 billion U.S. dollars from exporting fruits and vegetables in the first five months of this year, posting a year-on-year rise of 19.6 percent, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Vietnam spent 577 million U.S. dollars...
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A group of Cambodian farmers will travel to South Korea to study agricultural techniques and work as part of a programme backed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica).
A total of 19 farmers have been chosen by the General Directorate of Agriculture to partake in the initiative,...