New Hope Liuhe warns of first-half losses
BEIJING -- Chinese feed and pig producer New Hope Liuhe warned on Friday it could suffer first-half losses as the country’s pig industry grapples...
Cocoa industry pledges coordinated action on poverty, deforestation
BERLIN -- Companies and governments have pledged to tackle poverty, deforestation and human rights abuses in the cocoa supply chain, acknowledging that years of...
SE Asian agriculture museum to rise in UPLB
By Carmencita A. Carillo
Correspondent
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA -- The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is preparing to build...
Commercial production of Bt eggplant seen by 2019
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA -- The Supreme Court may have reversed its 2015 decision stopping field testing of genetically modified (GM) crops, but the commercial...
Goat cheese could be next big venture for Malagos group
By Maya M. Padillo
Correspondent
DAVAO CITY -- It started with three goats -- named Marvin, Jolina, and Rica after celebrities from the mid-1990s -- but...
US sorghum armada U-turns at sea after China tariffs
CHICAGO -- Several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum from the United States to China have changed course since Beijing slapped hefty anti-dumping deposits on...
Oil palm plantations, mills planned for Davao region
DAVAO CITY -- Several initiatives are underway for the development of oil palm plantations with milling facilities in Davao Region involving proponents from Malaysia,...
Roxas Holdings pushing for mechanization amid aging sugar labor force
INTEGRATED sugar and bioethanol producer Roxas Holdings, Inc. (RHI) said it is pushing for further mechanization on sugarcane farms amid fears of an aging...
Chocolate forests: Can cocoa help restore the Amazon?
NEW YORK/MEDICILÂNDIA, Brazil -- For years, Valdomiro Facchi has made a living ranching on land carved from the Amazon rainforest. He’s a small player...
Another trade war looming with US over Spanish olives
THE US FLAG still flutters next to others in front of the AgroSevilla factory, the world’s biggest exporter of black olives based in southern...
Halal exports hampered by lack of harmonization
THE Philippine Food Processors and Exporters Organization, Inc. (Philfoodex) wants unified halal certification rules to make it easier for products to be globally accepted.
Philfoodex...
Indonesia’s salt spat gives industry a shake
JAKARTA -- Indonesia’s efforts to protect farmers from imports have sometimes gone spectacularly wrong, creating shortages of staples such as rice and beef, and...
