Author: Shraddha Warde
The two companies will work together to optimise Agthia’s logistics operations, leveraging AD Ports Group’s experience in providing integrated and fully customisable end-to-end logistics solutions. Agthia Group, one of the UAE’s leading food & beverage companies, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AD Ports Group, the leading global facilitator of trade, logistics, and industry. Under the terms of the MoU, Agthia Group and AD Ports Group will collectively explore opportunities to enhance Agthia’s supply chain connectivity, improve logistics and operational efficiencies, and accelerate the implementation of digital-first initiatives. In particular, the two companies will work…
The RCEP, the largest free trade deal comprising 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), fruits and other agricultural products from Southeast Asian countries can now reach China faster and at lower prices. The RCEP, the world’s largest free trade deal comprising 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, as well as China, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Australia and New Zealand, entered into force on Jan. 1, 2022. In 2022, Vietnamese passion fruit and durian were allowed to enter the Chinese market. According to the Xinhua news agency, a company in…
Prior to this, Sherif held various key senior roles in financial planning and analysis, supply chain optimisation, and marketing transformation. Agthia Group, one of the UAE’s leading food & beverage companies have announced the appointment of Sherif Elfaham as Group Chief Financial Officer, effective 1 January 2023. Sherif brings strong strategic, commercial, and operational experience across a range of consumer-facing businesses, having spent over 20 years with Unilever in the UK, North Africa, Middle East, and Turkey, most recently as CFO of its multi-billion-dollar Global Fabric Care business and Home Care Business Group performance management, where he co-led the future…
The Ministry of Agriculture is primarily interested in finding solutions to increase transparency. In order to support the pond fishing industry in Israel, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will hold, an exposure event, on January 26, for the first public participation of the pond fishing industry, in cooperation with the Fish Breeders Organization, the Nature and Parks Authority and the Kinneret Innovation Centre. The participants will be asked to formulate solutions to two prominent challenges in the field: Marking fresh fish marketed without packaging and increasing transparency, alongside developing solutions for collecting fish carcasses in ponds. The event…
An expert committee has prepared the National Agricultural Policy. Sri Lanka’s draft of the first National Agricultural Policy has been completed. The draft will be presented in Parliament soon, according to the local media. The policy draft will be submitted to the Parliament for approval and after approval new agricultural law will be implemented. Due to the lack of national policy Sri Lanka’s Agri sector is in a tragic situation. Previously the country was self-sufficient in rice but now the situation has changed. Lanka spent $400 million on importing rice last year. Implementing a new agricultural policy is necessary…
Taiwan would become one of the few nations free of the three major diseases that affect pigs Taiwan has become a swine fever and disease-free country, without the need for vaccination, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA) of Taiwan. Taiwan took only six years to alleviate swine disease Huang Chin-cheng, Deputy Minister CAO said. After keeping African swine fever at bay in 2018, the World Organisation for Animal Health declared Taiwan proper, Penghu and Matsu free of foot-and-mouth disease and in 2020 allowed pork exports from those areas. According to the local media, nations such as Japan still ban…
The approved plan from 2023 to 2025 will contribute to additional productivity estimated at 430,000 tons. Saudi Arabia’s Ministery of Environment, Water and Agriculture has approved the expansion plan in the plant resources sector and greenhouses with a new investment worth SR4 billion until 2025 Abdulrahman Bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Fadhli, Water and Agriculture Eng, who is also the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Development Fund has approved the plan.According to the Saudi Gazette, this has been made in cooperation with the relevant authorities and private sector companies, which aim to increase production capacity by encouraging the…
The Bank is offering the Sustainable Aquaculture Lending Program (SALP) to provide credit assistance to fishers’ associations, cooperatives or federations. State-run Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) continues to intensify its support to the fisheries sector, with outstanding loans reaching P2.8 billion as of end-November 2022. In the fifth run of the LANDBANK AgriSenso Virtual Forum which recently gathered over 115 fishers and other stakeholders nationwide, LANDBANK shared available lending programs designed to boost the contribution of the fisheries sector in achieving food self-sufficiency in the country. Vivian M. Cañonero, LANDBANK Corporate Affairs Group Head, Vice President, Edgardo C. De…
The added value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery accounted for 47.2 per cent of the total. The added value of agriculture and related industries in China was 18.44 trillion yuan ($2.65 trillion) in 2021, up 10.5 per cent over the previous year (not excluding price factors). It accounted for 16.05 per cent of GDP, the National Bureau of Statistics said. According to the Xinhua news agency, in a breakdown, the added value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery accounted for 47.2 per cent of the total. The added value of processing and manufacturing of edible agriculture, forestry,…
Kurdistan Government will provide facilitation for all the companies and investors investing in the agriculture and food industry. The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Investment Board met with an Emirati Al Abrar Company delegation to discuss enhancing cooperation in Kurdistan Region’s agriculture and livestock sectors. “In the past, we have conducted more than 10 research projects in the Kurdistan Region for investment plans which are important for Kurdistan, Iraq, and the Emirates, significantly in the sectors of agriculture, animal welfare, and livestock with the aim of providing food security in the area,” Paul Wilm delegation Head, said. “We came to the…