Stunted economic growth on mainland and Sino-American political challenges weighed on 2023 decline led by agricultural and semiconductor shipments.

Though trade ties have taken a hit in other areas, the EU’s agriculture commissioner says a stronger relationship between China and Europe can and should exist in food and farming products.

Cows and goats – previously thought not susceptible – have joined the list of infected animals, and a US farmworker has caught the disease after exposure to cattle.

The Moti Mahal and Daryaganj restaurant chains have taken each other to court in New Delhi for the right to be recognised as the famous dish’s inventor.

Amid a new Chinese appetite for avocados, South Africa will become the third African nation to export the fruit.

China has set a goal for higher grain yields by 2030 – a necessity only likely to grow more acute as its stock of arable land has stagnated and the global food market has become more volatile.

President Yoon Suk-yeol has faced a growing backlash for commenting on the price of spring onions during a supermarket photocall amid surging food inflation in South Korea.

A fishing trawler exploded and sank in Hong Kong, in 1977, when marine police were inspecting the boat. Three officers were killed and 10 injured, in the blast, caused by an LPG canister in the hold.

CellX started life as a cultivated meat producer, but is now diversifying its product range to include fermentation, paving the way for a faster market launch

Experts say rice-hungry Indonesia should diversify its sources of carbohydrates to help people be more resilient to rice price fluctuations.

China is accelerating commercialisation of higher-yielding genetically modified (GM) crops as part of its efforts to improve agricultural efficiency amid Beijing’s food security push.

Avant Meats is expanding its lab-grown seafood production capacity amid growing popularity of sustainable seafood.

The move had been widely expected this month, and a formal announcement from Chinese commerce authorities shows how much ties with Canberra have improved in the past year.

A report said more than US$1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry.

Boasting a slew of health benefits, Chinese scientists have said bamboo could help feed the growing global population.

Online users slam Zomato for being ignorant of divisions over food preferences along caste and religious lines in India.

The country’s farms rely on millions of workers from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal, who return home every year to observe Ramadan with their families.

More than 99 per cent of Vietnam’s durian exports went to China last year, and the Southeast Asian country is expected to ship US$3.5 billion of the fruit in 2024.

Nutritionists say millets could help alleviate Indians’ common health problems such as diabetes and undernourishment.

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.