Author: Hithaishi CB

The World Food Forum (WFF) is a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems that is committed to the theme: “Agrifood systems transformation accelerates climate action.” Asia and the Pacific converged at the FAO headquarters in Rome from 16-20 October for the World Food Forum while hundreds more joined the forum virtually to inspire individual and collective actions for agrifood system transformation. The World Food Forum (WFF) is a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems that is committed to the theme: “Agrifood systems transformation accelerates climate action.” Similar to the global line-up of WFF events,…

Explores adoption of agriculture technology, exchange of skilled manpower, promote agri trade, animal science, and steps to mitigating climate change The Government of Greece is in talks with India’s leading FMCG company BL Agro to explore strategic partnership in adoption of agriculture technology, exchange of skilled manpower, promote agri trade, animal science, and steps to mitigating climate change. Honourable Minister of Rural Development & Food of the Hellenic Republic Eleftherious Avgenakis and Dimitrios Loannou, Ambassador of Greece to India met Ashish Khandelwal, MD, BL Agro FMCG Co. and Navneet Ravikar, Chairman & Managing Director, Leads Connect Services, recently during a…

The Centre will provide climate risk quantification and management capabilities to support the region’s resilience and transition to net-zero WTW, a leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company, announced the launch of an Asia Pacific Climate Risk Centre (ACRC) in Singapore. The Centre reinforces WTW’s commitment to helping the region transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy. Utilising WTW’s deep expertise on risk management and risk financing, the Centre will support corporates, financial institutions, insurers and governments in understanding, quantifying and building resilience against climate risks. It focuses on physical and transition climate risk assessment and quantification through top-down and bottom-up methods and proprietary models. The…

The five-year Lupin Disease Resistance and four-year Harvestable Annual Legume Options (HALO) projects are the first to be announced under the Collaboration’s Grains Transformation program. Grains Transformation is one of six key program themes developed by the Collaboration, which also include Northern Australia’s Agriculture, Climate Resilience, Agricultural Technologies, Aboriginal Participation, and Capacity Building and Extension. Lupin Disease Resistance is focused on boosting lupin resistance to its four major diseases, while the HALO project is exploring harvestable annual legumes cultivars that can be used in rotation to reduce synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. Both grains projects are a co-investment between the Grains Research…

UK startup Oceanium has won the Thai Union Innovation Challenge at this year’s Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore. One of the world’s leading seafood producers, Thai Union set the challenge to discover fresh ideas and solutions that will support its SeaChange 2030 Sustainability Strategy, which aims to reshape the seafood industry. The Innovation Challenge, ‘Novel Ingredients and Applications from Ocean-Derived Ingredients’, attracted entries from over 60 agri-food startups around the world. After a rigorous selection process, two finalists – Ingrediome, and Oceanium – had the opportunity to showcase their innovative solutions on stage in Singapore, to the Thai Union judges and a global summit…

Key earners were fruits and vegetables ($4.91 billion), rice ($3.97 billion), and cashew nuts ($2.92 billion). According to Vietnam’s Investment and Trade Promotion Center(ITPC), Vietnam ran a surplus of $9.3 billion in agro-forestry-fishery trade during January – October, up 26.2% from the same time last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). During the period, exports of the products totaled $43.08 billion, falling 4.2% year-on-year due to a decrease in the export value of key products such as seafood ($7.45 billion, down 20.5%) and forestry ($11.65 billion, down 19.3%). Agricultural exports accounted for nearly half of…

Zespri’s total global kiwifruit sales increase from $1.9 billion in 2015/16 to $3.92 billion in 2022 Zespri has officially opened its new Centre of Sales and Marketing Excellence in Singapore. The Centre was first established in 2015 and acts as a vital hub connecting Zespri’s markets together, as well as connecting all markets with growers in New Zealand and offshore. New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore, Her Excellency Gabrielle Rush and New Zealand Trade Commissioner Maggie Christie attended the opening, along with around 60 growers from New Zealand as part of the first industry tour since Covid-19 which will also…

Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair gathers global expertise in fine wine to cultivates new market opportunities The 15th HKTDC Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), ended today after a successful three-day run (3-5 November). The fair drew keen buyers from emerging markets. Several regions stood out including Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan, as well as Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia, showing healthy potential for development. The return of global buyers to the physical Wine and Spirits Fair underlines Hong Kong’s status as a key trade…

With this new alliance, Hefty Seed will gain access to Meristem’s patented BIO-CAPSULE for the delivery of its proprietary blend of microbes and micronutrients Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC and Hefty Seed Company announced a strategic alliance and supply agreement focused on increasing the impact of beneficial biologicals on crop production and return on investment (ROI) for American farmers.“Hefty Seed Company’s stellar reputation for bringing the best in crop inputs and agronomic advice to help farmers make the most of every crop is second to none,” says Mitch Eviston, Founder and CEO of Meristem Crop Performance, in announcing the alliance.…

The initiative includes the launch of two new labs, Sustainability Lab and eXtended Reality Centre (XRC), and two Certificate of Competency (CoC) courses to support SMEs in their green digital transformation journey and to nurture the next generation of digital workforce Lenovo has launched its Innovations in Sustainability initiative, in collaboration with AMD and ITE, to support SMEs in their green digital transformation journey and empower students to be the next generation of the digital workforce in Singapore. The initiative encompasses the launch of two new labs, Sustainability Lab and eXtended Reality Centre(XRC), and two Certificate of Competency (CoC) courses,…