Author: Shraddha Warde

The KADIWA stores have been selling the onions at a reasonable price since the month of October. Philippines Department of Agriculture’s (DA) KADIWA outlets offer native red and white onions for P170 a kilo, with each customer allowed to buy a maximum of three kilos, to help ease consumer’s needs due to the high prices of onions in local markets. According to the latest update from the DA Bantay Presyo – National Capital Region (NCR), the market price of both local red and white onions is at P420 to P600. The KADIWA stores have been selling the P170/kilo onions since…

Flourish, will be integrated with the AgriON app, providing easy access to purchase and manage agricultural insurance. Lexasure Financial Group, a leading reinsurance and insurtech provider in Southeast Asia, has partnered with AgriON: PT iSAN to offer easily accessible, mobile agriculture insurance products to thousands of smaller farmers in Indonesia. AgriON promotes financial inclusion for Indonesia’s farmers through a mobile fintech platform that includes a digital bank account, digital loans for seeds, fertilizer, and farming tools, automated payments, and tools to benchmark yield, sales, and productivity. Currently, more than 4,000 farmers are registered with the AgriON platform in Indonesia, which is expected to grow to 20,000 by the…

The opening of LANDBANK’s new Agri-Hubs raises the total number of the Bank’s Agri-Hubs in the country to 16, complementing the Bank’s 607 Branches. The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) wrapped up 2022 with the opening of four new Agri-Hubs located in the provinces of Oriental Mindoro, Bukidnon, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental, expanding its physical touchpoints to better serve farmers and fishers in the country. The state-run bank established the four Agri-Hubs in the last week of December, which will provide combined services of banking, lending and agrarian services to the country’s top rice-producing provinces, including unbanked and…

Grain and oil consumption has entered its peak season as the Spring Festival holiday approaches. China maintained its grain purchase level and ensured a stable domestic grain market in 2022, against the backdrop of sharply fluctuating international grain prices. Enterprises across the country are expected to have purchased 400 million tonnes of grains in 2022, basically, on par with the levels seen in past years, data from the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration show. The country ensured that the domestic grain market maintained overall stability last year, with an enhanced reserve capacity, amid a global grain price swing, Cong…

Export turnover of the agro-forestry-fishery (AFF) industry reached $53.22 billion, up 9.3 per cent compared to 2021. Vietnam’s agricultural sector’s GDP in 2022 reached 3.36 per cent, the highest increase in recent years in which, agriculture increased by 2.88 per cent (cultivation increased by 1.51 per cent, livestock production increased by 5.93 per cent), fisheries increased by 4.43 per cent, forestry increased by 6.13 per cent; forest coverage rate is over 42.02 per cent, the percentage of communes meeting new rural standards is over 73 per cent, export turnover of agro-forestry-fishery (AFF) industry reached $53.22 billion, up 9.3 per cent…

FAO Food Price Index ends 2022 lower than a year earlier The index of world food prices dipped for the ninth consecutive month in December 2022, declining by 1.9 per cent from the previous month, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reported.The FAO Food Price Index averaged 132.4 points in December, 1.0 per cent below its value a year earlier. However, for 2022 as a whole, the index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 143.7 points, 14.3 per cent higher than the average value over 2021.“Calmer food commodity prices are welcome…

FAO has mobilised over $25 million and has provided over 600 000 affected people with seeds and fertilizers. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) will continue to play a leading role in transforming Pakistan’s agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, sustainable and resilient, a challenge that has gained urgency following recent floods that have devastated the country’s agriculture sector, QU Dongyu Director-General told a UN conference. International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva, co-hosted by the Government of Pakistan and the UN, took place in the wake of last summer’s floods, which had a…

The launch of ‘Eltezam’ is part of EAD’s ongoing efforts to execute its regulatory role by preserving environmental standards. The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), has recently launched ‘Eltezam’ – a new digital system for environmental inspection and compliance evaluation which gives EAD’s inspectors the flexibility to evaluate facilities and projects based on actual on-site activities and operations. The new system allows inspectors to comprehensively review any aspect of an organisation’s activities regarding any potential environmental harm rather than being limited to activities listed on their environmental license. The launch of ‘Eltezam’ is part of EAD’s ongoing efforts to…

The farm has three infected buildings, containing 21,500 heavy-breeding poultry. Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development detected a second occurrence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu at Moshav Be’er Tuvia, about 350 meters away from the outbreak flash point that was detected last week. The farm has three infected buildings, containing 21,500 heavy-breeding poultry. The Veterinary Services of the Ministry of Agriculture continue to actively monitor all the poultry coop farms in the area. In order to prevent the spread of the disease, the Ministry of Agriculture operates in accordance with the regular work procedures related to the…

The two days Negev Forum summit was held in Abu Dhabi and brought together Israel and Arab states. Kaufman Pess, Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Israel has presented a proposal for four strategic core areas for the stability of food systems and water technologies in the region, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Water Authority at the Negev Forum.  The two days Negev Forum summit was held in Abu Dhabi, and brought together Israel and Arab states, with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt and the United States. Na’ama Kaufman Pess, Director General, in…