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UK's Morrisons Starts Search for Best Local Food Producers

Mar 1, 2017

Morrisons is starting a search for the best local food producers who can help to feed the nation, as a new report calls for the UK to be more self-sufficient in food production and new consumer research shows an increasing appetite from ...

Tags: Food Producers, food

China to Deepen Reform in Agricultural Sector

Feb 6, 2017

The major problems facing China's agricultural sector are structural ones, mainly on the supply side, according to the document by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The document calls for ...

Tags: agricultural sector, structural reform

Inocucor's Specialty Ag Biological Products Registered in Canada

Dec 15, 2016

Inocucor Technologies announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has registered its first two specialty ag biological products for use by Canadian farmers and greenhouse growers. Synergro is a live-cell formulation for ...

Tags: Inocucor, Synergro

Parrish and Heimbecker Secures $10m From Canada for New Milling Plant

Nov 17, 2016

Parrish and Heimbecker has secured a funding of $10m from the Canadian government to build a new wheat flour milling plant at Hamilton. The Canadian grain company’s new plant is expected to increase production capacity of wheat ...

Tags: Milling Plant, Parrish, Heimbecker

Vineland Centre to Develop New Apple and Tomato Varieties

Nov 15, 2016

Canada's Vineland Research and Innovation Centre will receive federal funding to develop new disease-resistant apple and greenhouse tomato varieties. Canada agriculture and agri-food minister Lawrence MacAulay, and Niagara Centre member ...

Tags: Canada agriculture, Apple

China Lays out Plan for Agricultural Modernization

Oct 21, 2016

China aims to achieve "marked progress" in agricultural modernization by 2020, according to a five-year plan released by the State Council Thursday. The country will strive to ensure food security, improve the quality and efficiency of ...

Tags: Agricultural, Agricultural Modernization

Toyota Develops DNA Analysis Technology for Agricultural Improvement

Sep 27, 2016

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a new deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis technology called Genotyping by Random Amplicon Sequencing (GRAS) using analytical materials that have been provided by the Kyushu ...

Tags: TMC, DNA analysis technology, Genotyping

EIB Offers €150m Loan for Dutch Company FrieslandCampina &

Jun 27, 2016

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a €150m loan for FrieslandCampina to conduct research and development activities in Europe. The loan marks the bank's first loan to a company in the Dutch agricultural sector. Founded ...

Tags: EIB, FrieslandCampina

Central Bank Injects Liquidity Into Market

Dec 22, 2015

China's central bank offered a total of 100 billion yuan (15.4 billion U.S. dollars) in six-month medium-term lending facility (MLF) loans at 3.25 percent to 13 financial institutions on Friday. "The move is aimed at maintaining proper ...

Tags: Central Bank, Liquidity

China's Power Use Rebounds As Economy Stabilizes

Dec 17, 2015

China's power use, a key barometer of economic activity, ended a two-month falling streak in November by edging up 0.6 percent from one year earlier as the economy showed signs of stabilization, according to data released Wednesday. ...

Tags: Electricity, Power, economy

Purity Introduces White & Bran Cassava Sandwich Loaves

Dec 15, 2015

Purity Bakeries, in collaboration with the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organisation and the BADMC, have developed, formulated and introduced an exciting new loaf, using fresh grated cassava blended meticulously into our Junior Bran & ...

Tags: Purity Bakeries, Sandwich Loaves, cassava

Virginia to Build a $62m Turkey Processing Facility in Hinton

Jul 27, 2015

Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative will build a $62m turkey processing facility in Hinton, a move that creates new jobs. The expansion will increase the company's poultry production by over 45% to cater to the increasing consumer demand ...

Tags: animal husbandry, turkey processing, poultry production

China to Float Prices for Agricultural Products

Jul 22, 2015

The Chinese government will allow prices of several agricultural goods to float freely in the market in an "historic adjustment," state media reported Tuesday, as high domestic prices struggle to cope with a downtrend in the global ...

Tags: soybeans, cotton, oilseeds

E-Commerce Can Help Open up The Agricultural Sector

Jun 9, 2015

Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...

Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural

Philippine Textile Research Institute Is Keen on Making Tropical Fabrics More Mainstream

Jun 2, 2015

Clothing made from tropical fabrics such as piña and banana are usually used only during weddings, baptisms, burials and other special occasions in the Philippines. But the Philippine textile research institute of the department of ...

Tags: Clothing, tropical fabrics

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