South Korea has been exempted from liberalising its rice market for 20 years due to the 1994 Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. (Image source: Lihi Koren/Flickr)
South Korea has announced that it aims at increasing its rice exports after export restrictions are lifted on the staple grain from March 2015
The construction is expected to start in 2015 and is due to be completed by 2017. (Image source: Johanan Ottensooser/Flickr)
Myanmar and China will jointly build a 200-tonne advanced rice mill at Nyaungdone in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region, according to the Myanmar Rice Millers Association (MRMA)
Organic rice exports still command only a fraction of Cambodia’s overall rice exports, which totalled 380,000 tonnes of rice in 2014, authorities revealed. (Image source: Brandon W. Mosley/sxc.hu)
Cambodia is aiming to double up it organic rice exports to 1,000 tonnes in 2015, according to official sources
India-based Dhanuka Agritech manufactures a wide range of farm input products to support farmers. (Image source: Timothy Corbin/Flickr)
Agro-chemicals manufacturer Dhanuka Agritech has launched herbicide SEMPRA to protect sugarcane from weeds in India
: Farm mechanisation is seen as a key tool in countering the decline in rural productivity in China. (Image source: Worldfish/Flickr)
China has announced that it will give priority to growers of key staple crops as it seeks to guarantee food self-sufficiency amid a declining rural workforce in the country
