Food security and safety

Expansion of Foreign Agricultural Industry through Various Crops - Establishment of the five-year Comprehensive Plan for the 3rd Foreign Agricultural Resources Development (`18~`22) -

Byoung-Hoon Lee
ABSTRACT   MAFRA established a ‘Five-year Comprehensive Plan for the 3rd Foreign Agricultural Resources Development (`18~`22)’. This plan is to change the direction of foreign agricultural development into developing various crops, help the expansion of related industry, and support...
Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety
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Towards a More Productive Agriculture: A Review of the Policies Affecting the Philippine Fertilizer Industry

Princess Alma B. Ani, Meliza A. Festejo-Abeleda
ABSTRACT The important contribution of fertilizers in achieving agricultural productivity to ensure food security is highlighted in this paper. State of the two sub-sectors of the Philippine fertilizer industry, the inorganic fertilizer and bio-fertilizer, was discussed. The inorganic fertilizer...
Country: Philippines Topic: Food security and safety
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Understanding food self-sufficiency ratio and food self-sufficiency potential index in Japan

Yoshiaki Iiguni
INTRODUCTION This article is translated from a webpage titled “Japanese Food Self-sufficiency Potential (日本の食料自給力)” (http://www.maff.go.jp/j/zyukyu/zikyu_ritu/012_1.html). This webpage is a subpage of a webpage titled “About food self-sufficiency rate and food self-sufficiency(食料自給率・食料自給力について...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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The Introduction of Gap and Quality System for Pitaya in Vietnam

Dang Thi Kim Uyen, J.M. Campbell, Nguyen Thanh Hieu, Nguyen Van Hoa, R.A. Fullerton
ABSTRACT In Vietnam, at present, the area for dragon fruit (DF-pitaya) is about 45,450 ha with a total production of 587,968 tons and the average DF area per household is 0.5- 1 ha. Unfortunately, producers of DF have seen prices of fruits decline since the product mainly are sold to local...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Food security and safety
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Food Security and Nutrition in Myanmar: Policy Landscape

Thanda Kyi
ABSTRACT Food security in different regions and states of the country may vary from each other based on their economic development activities, social network, infrastructure development, how it is seen on the development of the regions and states, how budget is allocated to utilize for the...
Country: Myanmar Topic: Food security and safety
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