The U.S. and China will extend working-level trade talks in Beijing to Wednesday, officials said, in an apparent sign of progress by the Trump administration on increasing Chinese imports of American farm goods and energy.
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A European Parliament (EP) delegation is in Hà Nội to prepare for the ratification of a bilateral agreement on forestry that would promote trade in verified legal timber products from Việt Nam to the EU and other markets. 
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Top soybean importer China is buying more American supplies as talks between Washington and Beijing seek a lasting truce to a trade conflict that has roiled global markets, according to traders familiar with the transaction.
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A new case in the northern part of China has affected a farm with 73,000 pigs, the largest farm yet to report a case of the deadly disease.
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was the flagship project proposed within the larger Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2015 involving capital investment of US$46 billion in the beginning and later enhanced to $62 billion toward constructing roads, ports, electricity production and industrial zones and other connectivity and infrastructural development work in Pakistan.
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The larger the trade partnership gets, the better it is for its members and the more attractive it becomes for those left outside
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Commodity traders are in the dark because of the partial U.S. government shutdown, unable to see daily and weekly reports of agricultural exports to obtain clues as to whether China is following through with promises to buy grain and soy amid the ongoing trade war.
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North Korea has acknowledged "drawbacks" in its agricultural sector this year, echoing UN reports of declining crop yields in a country that remains heavily reliant on food imports and aid.
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Avec environ 10 millions de tonnes, la Thaïlande était en 2016 le 4ème producteur de sucre, soit 5,8% de la production mondiale. Cette production est issue de la canne à sucre, dont les productions sont assez équitablement réparties entre les provinces du Nord et de l'Est de la Thaïlande
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States are accused of diluting a 2013 law that placed tight restrictions on land purchases, including consent from farmers and adequate compensation.
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Change in climate is mainly attributed to the unabated increase in greenhouse gases, including fluorinated gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, which bring changes in rain pattern, temperature, and negative effects on water and land resources, floods, and droughts.
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The world is undergoing major development, changes and adjustments. The trend toward multi-polarity, economic globalisation, IT application and cultural diversity is deepening. Countries are increasingly interconnected and interdependent. Meanwhile, the world is witnessing growing instabilities and uncertainties, with unilateralism, protectionism and de-globalization on the rise.
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Considerable opportunities are available for the Irish agri-food industry in meeting future food supply demands in Asia.
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The Philippines has informed the Spanish government of its desire to update the existing memorandum on agricultural cooperation between Manila and Madrid to further strengthen trade cooperation between the two countries.
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The potato bomb has exploded in the face of Punjab farmers once again—another year when they are unable to get remunerative prices for their produce. Farmers say that after spending Rs 7 to produce a kilogramme of the crop all they get is Rs 2.50 per kg for fresh potato meant for instant consumption. The situation is worse for cold storage owners who complain that they still have stock left from the last season. Retailers, however, are selling the tuber to consumers at Rs 10-30 a kg across the country.
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Japan's seafood processors are beginning to shift their business focus from catching fish from the sea to inland fish farming as new technologies and legal revisions make this kind of aquaculture more appealing.
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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday that three areas -- political mutual trust, cooperation on Belt and Road Initiative, and cooperation in international affairs -- are prioritized in China-Ethiopia relations.
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If there’s one item that epitomizes our modern world, it’s plastic. It’s easy to make and use but does untold damage, especially in Asia where rivers, lakes and oceans are literally choking on it.
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India’s food processing sector is only at 10% of its full potential, according to an expert at the World Bank who claims it is lagging behind other emerging markets.
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China has opened the door to imports of rice from the United States for the first time in what analysts took to signal a warming of relations between the world's two biggest economies after a frosty year marked by tensions and tit-for-tat tariffs.
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As the spread of swine fever raises alarm in Japan, experts believe the initial outbreak was triggered by a traveler who brought contaminated
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Les médias sont le porte-étendard de l’ambition chinoise en IA : devenir le leader mondial. Une ambition crédible, qui s’appuie sur des structures numériques innovantes, où coopèrent géants privés du Net et pouvoir d’État. L’IA est à ce jour un outil de puissance économique et martiale, et non de soft power.
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Some years ago, while speaking at the release of the book Religious Demography of India by the Center for Policy Studies, an Indian think-tank affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, former RSS head K S Sudarshan exhorted Hindus to have larger families. He urged them to have no fewer than three children and encouraged them to have as many they could afterward.
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Egypt signed a series of agreements to export its agricultural products to Asia, including China and Japan, in a bid to boost its ailing economy.
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President Rodrigo Duterte's administration was mired in rice problems during his second year in office, pulling it away from his target of 100% rice self-sufficiency by the end of the year. While cause for deep concern, these issues are not entirely new to Filipinos.
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