The Ministry aims to cultivate Vietnam’s first GM crops by 2015 and have 30-50 per cent of the country’s farmland covered with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by 2020. (Image source: Michael Dorausch/Flickr)
Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted licences to four genetically modified (GM) corn varieties to be used for both human consumption and animal feed
With drip irrigation, one cu/m of water can irrigate 2,000 square metres. (Image source: H2O-C/Wikimedia Commons)
Scientists have successfully tested a new water-saving irrigation technology in the growing area of Hami in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
India boosted exports of the country’s palm oil. (Image source: Bill Barclay/Flickr)
Indonesia has witnessed highest exports of palm oil in July this year at 1.8mn metric tonnes after India boosted purchases
The vegetables, produced within a 248 square metre indoor facility in Tuas, includes green lettuce, white radish, rocket lettuce, basil, mint herb, wild parsley, baby spinach. (Image source: Panasonic)
Electronics firm Panasonic has recently set up a farm in Singapore to produce local vegetables, becoming the country’s first licensed indoor farmer
Japan ranked the second among markets of Vietnamese fruits and vegetable during the six-month period. (Image source: The Open University/Flickr)
China was the biggest importer of Vietnamese fruits and vegetable in the first half of 2014, accounting for 31.77 per cent of the export value, according to a report
