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Latest news, in-depth features and opinion on food and agriculture, with a focus on Hong Kong, mainland China and Asia.
Hong Kong will never be self-sufficient when it comes to food, but any move towards increasing local supply should be welcomed.
Trial project in Shenzhen cultivates high-value marine species, such as grouper, lobster and abalone, using cold energy from liquefied natural gas amid China’s push to reduce reliance on seafood imports.
A minister has been ridiculed for his suggestion that marketing palm oil plantation workers as ‘professional harvesters’ could help solve chronic labour shortages.
Winemakers around the world are ripping out vines in the face of higher production costs, reduced demand and falling prices, and replacing them with alternative crops.
Beijing has urged higher efficiency in land use after decades of rapid urbanisation, with signals that it could reform China’s rigid system to aid economic growth.
China’s consumer price index (CPI) turned positive for the first time since September, while the producer price index (PPI) fell for the 17th month in a row.
The Gourmand’s Lemon celebrates a fruit that has inspired designers, writers and artists – as well as chefs – all the way back to the ancient Egyptians
The women farmers joining in the protest say they want the government to recognise their labour contribution and struggles.
The farmers have been advised to travel by buses and cars to avoid police blockades instead of marching in large groups.
Sorriso mayor Ari Lafin noted that while the Chinese were receptive to his delegation’s proposals, COFCO tends to prefer processing soybeans in China
A high-level conference ended with no deals on agriculture and fisheries, spotlighting sharp divisions among the organisation’s 164 members.
From top-level meetings to AI discussions and a shock investment discovery by the House, here are a few highlights from the SCMP’s US-based correspondents in February 2024.
The ongoing protest march was sparked by the death of a 21-year-old farmer, allegedly during a clash with the police in Punjab.
More than 80 canals have dried up in the Tran Van Thoi district of Ca Mau province, where agricultural production is entirely reliant on rainwater.
Projections for the world’s output of durians have gone as high as a 10 per cent increase by 2030 – making competition over market dominance in China, the largest consumers of the fruit by far, even more heated.
Researchers treat saline-alkaline wasteland with crop stalks and plastic covering to retain moisture and prevent salt from rising to the surface, increasing crop yields by 30.5 per cent.
China’s exports of frozen and fresh truffles surged by 58.6 per cent from a year earlier in 2023 amid increasing efforts to secure a foothold in the high-end food produce trade.
India’s farmers vow to continue protest on capital New Delhi even as police allegedly fire pellet guns on ‘peaceful’ protesters.
The farmers are seeking a guarantee minimum price for 23 crops, and rejected the government’s offer of a five-year contract for guaranteed prices for five crops, including pulses, maize and cotton.
The new rice could offer a cheaper and more environmentally sustainable meat alternative and leave a smaller carbon footprint.
PM Narendra Modi has decided to defy protesters’ demands amid inflation fears, even as the protest threatens to sway the vote in an agriculture-dependent nation, analysts say.
While conventional methods of heritable gene editing in plants can take up to a year, innovation could reduce the process to about two weeks, say authors.
With a general election just weeks away, authorities are trying to prevent a repeat of farm protests that began in late 2020 and lasted for nearly a year.
Katherine Tai sees ‘strategic value’ in duties while bolstering American middle class and reinvigorating stateside manufacturing and domestic economy.
Thieves took 133 tonnes of chicken – said to be a month’s ration for a medium-sized province – from a facility in Havana and sold it to buy refrigerators, televisions and air conditioners.
Unpredictable weather patterns have left women farmers trapped in debt as floods, droughts batter their farms, straining their ability to repay loans.
Farmers angry about EU policies to tackle climate change and the impact of cheap food imports from neighbouring Ukraine are calling on fellow Pole Janusz Wojciechowski to quit.