Davao’s Sagrex Foods developing Middle East frozen plantain market
DAVAO CITY-BASED Sagrex Foods, Inc. is investing about $1 million in a facility that will export frozen plantain, a variety of cooking banana known...
PHL plans to import 250,000 tons of rice to raise stocks
THE PHILIPPINES, one of the world’s top rice buyers, plans to import 250,000 tons of rice as soon as possible to boost thinning stockpiles,...
PCIC to further develop weather-index products, seeking USAID deal
THE Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) hopes to explore an agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to further develop a...
Big push for halal products in Gulf states
THE Export Marketing Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will be developing more halal food products for export to markets...
Food price slump may relieve inflation concerns at central banks worldwide
FOR ALL THE WORRY about soaring oil and metals prices fueling inflation, consumers may at least catch a break at the dinner table.
Globally, food...
NFA warns against fake rice import permits
THE National Food Authority (NFA) said counterfeit rice import permits (IPs) may be circulating after the agency received reports of unauthorized parties offering them...
China dams Mekong, creating problems downstream
CAMBODIAN fisherman Sles Hiet lives at the mercy of the Mekong: a massive river that feeds tens of millions but is under threat from...
DoST touts new areas for mussel-farming expansion
THE GOVERNMENT has identified 12 areas, mostly in the Visayas and Mindanao, deemed suitable for the development of a mussel farming industry.
The Philippine Council...
French beef producers cheer return to China
FRENCH BEEF producers on Tuesday hailed a deal reached by President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to end China’s 2001 embargo...
UK farm subsidies to linger after Brexit
THE British government said Thursday it will match European Union (EU) subsidies for farmers for around five years after Brexit until it puts in...
Monsanto sees profit rise on more soy planting
EVERYTHING’S pointing to another year of growth for US seed giant Monsanto.
Pretax earnings in the fiscal year through August are expected to increase, the...
Quarter of land will be drier under 2°C warming
MORE THAN a quarter of Earth’s land surface will become “significantly” drier even if humanity manages to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius,...
