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BASF expands APG production capacity at Bangpakong site in Thailand
21-Nov-2025 - 0 Comments.
BASF has expanded its Alkyl Polyglucosides (APG) production in Bangpakong, Thailand, enhancing sustainable surfactant supply in Asia and strengthening its global APG network.
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South Asia’s largest poultry expo set to open in Hyderabad on Nov 26
11-Nov-2025 - 0 Comments.
The 17th Poultry India Expo 2025 in Hyderabad will host 500 exhibitors and 45,000 visitors from 50 countries, showcasing innovation in poultry farming.
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UPL bags Clarivate South Asia Innovation Award in AgriBusiness 2025
10-Aug-2025 - 0 Comments.
UPL Limited wins Clarivate South Asia Innovation Award 2025 for third year, reaffirming its leadership in sustainable agriculture innovation.
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FAO urges Asia, Africa to embrace innovation, branding in farming
16-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
FAO urges Africa and Asia to embrace innovation and product branding to transform agrifood systems and promote sustainable rural livelihoods.
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Bayer expands global pact with M2i Group for pheromone solutions
14-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
Bayer strengthens global biological crop protection strategy by extending partnership with M2i Group to distribute pheromone-based solutions across Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the US.
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Corteva appoints Brook Cunningham as President, Asia-Pacific
09-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
Corteva has appointed Brook Cunningham as President, Asia-Pacific, effective June 1, 2025. Cunningham will be based in Singapore and lead Corteva’s commercial business in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, spanning 17 countries.
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ICRISAT named CGIAR Breeding Resources Hub for South Asia
08-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
ICRISAT will serve as CGIAR’s South Asia breeding hub, offering high-quality genotyping, phenotyping, and digital analytics for climate-resilient crop R&D.
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Bamboo Mushrooms: Forest Delicacy with Healing Powers
04-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
Rare bamboo mushrooms offer high profits, medicinal benefits, and sustainability potential for forest farmers across India and Asia.
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Asia faces record heat, disasters in 2024: WMO report
26-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
WMO's 2024 Asia Climate Report warns of extreme heat, floods, and glacier loss. Asia warming twice as fast as global rate, urgent action needed.
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ADB, CGIAR unveils $1.5B climate-smart rice farming drive
24-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
ADB, CGIAR, and Gates Foundation launch $1.5B plan to scale sustainable, low-carbon rice farming for smallholder farmers across Asia-Pacific.
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IRRI launches Asia-Pacific hub to power climate-resilient agriculture
22-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
IRRI launches CGIAR Asia Pacific Hub to accelerate innovation in climate-resilient farming across South and Southeast Asia amid rising climate threats.
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BASF eyes Asia, seeds market ahead of 2027 IPO plan
11-May-2025 - 0 Comments.
BASF’s agricultural division is targeting growth in Asia and the global seeds market as it prepares for a potential stock market listing by 2027, a senior executive said.
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FAO, ADB deepen $2.6B agri alliance to tackle hunger
08-May-2025 - 0 Comments.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have expanded their long-standing partnership to accelerate investment in sustainable agriculture across Asia and the Pacific.
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Patch, Varaha partner to drive Asia's largest carbon removal
10-Apr-2025 - 0 Comments.
In a significant boost to climate action in Asia, climate solutions platform Patch and carbon project developer Varaha have announced a multi-million dollar partnership aimed at scaling durable carbon removal initiatives across the region.
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Varaha sells over 60,000 tonnes of carbon credits to Klimate
04-Apr-2025 - 0 Comments.
Varaha, a leading developer of carbon removal projects in Asia, has sold over 60,000 tonnes of carbon credits to Denmark-based Klimate across five contracts.
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Varaha and Google sign one of the largest Industrial Biochar CDR Offtake agreements
01-Feb-2025 - 0 Comments.
Varaha, an Indian company developing carbon removal projects in Asia, has sold 100,000 carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits to Google.
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Agricultural Innovation, Technology: Key to Combating Hunger
04-Aug-2024 - 0 Comments.
With the recent release of the United Nations (UN) 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, CropLife Asia and its member companies are highlighting the increasingly critical role agricultural innovation and technology play in enabling and empowering regional farmers to produce the safe, nutritious and affordable food that drives food security in Asia.
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Solidaridad Asia handholds small tea growers of India to get an even playing ground in the global market
25-Jan-2024 - 0 Comments.
Solidaridad Asia continues to spearhead sustainable economic development, placing a strong focus on empowering Small Tea Growers (STGs) across India to compete equitably in the global market.
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Louis Dreyfus Company makes binding offer to acquire Namoi Cotton
19-Jan-2024 - 0 Comments.
Louis Dreyfus Company Asia Pte. Ltd (LDC) announced today that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the remaining 83% shares of Namoi Cotton Limited (Namoi Cotton) by way of a Scheme of Arrangement, marking a significant milestone in LDC’s 111-year history in Australia.
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Know more about Millet crop in India
20-Oct-2023 - 0 Comments.
Millets are a group of small-seeded grasses that are grown for their edible grain. They are a staple food for millions of people in Asia and Africa, and they are becoming increasingly popular in other parts of the world as well.
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Applications Open for evokeAG. 2024 Startup Program: Connect, Grow, and Innovate in Agrifood Tech
22-Sep-2023 - 0 Comments.
Calling all agrifood tech innovators! Here's your chance to join Asia Pacific's premier agrifood tech event, AgriFutures evokeAG. 2024.
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Leading the charge for a greener future: AVPN spotlights the climate leadership of Godrej and Wipro
17-Aug-2023 - 0 Comments.
The Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), the largest network of social investors in Asia, has unveiled a compelling initiative through its Climate Action Platform.
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UPL bags Clarivate South Asia Innovation Award 2023 for third time
17-Aug-2023 - 0 Comments.
UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070 LSE: UPLL) (‘UPL’) a global provider of sustainable agricultural solutions, has been awarded the South Asia Innovation Award in agribusiness for the third time recognizing UPL as a top innovator.
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Find ways to absorb fluctuations in global seafood export market: IISS
19-Feb-2023 - 0 Comments.
India must tap more of its domestic market for shrimps through improved cold-chain infrastructure so as to absorb fluctuations in the international trade of the commodity owing to stiff competition from Latin America and South-East Asia, according to experts at the 23rd India International Seafood Show (IISS).
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India's agrifood startups raises a whopping US $4.6 billion funding in FY2022
30-Nov-2022 - 0 Comments.
India has overtaken China as Asia-Pacific's biggest funder of agrifoodtech innovation, attracting record levels of investment in the fiscal year April 2021 to March 2022, according to AgFunder and Omnivore's fourth India AgriFood Startup Investment Report.
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Growhub Innovations announces joint project with Koufuku Group to enter Asean market
07-Sep-2022 - 0 Comments.
The GrowHub Innovations Company ("The GrowHub"), Asia Pacific's only Web3-enabled plug-and-play ecosystem builder for food traceability and carbon credits, and KOUFUKU GROUP, a Japanese food company with over 50 years of history, have signed an MoU partnership for a joint project on market penetration using The GrowHub's proprietary Web3 technology.
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Cropin wins Climate Innovation Challenge; deploys robust climate-resilient solutions
08-Mar-2022 - 0 Comments.
Cropin, a global provider of agri-ecosystem intelligence, was recently named one of the winners of the Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC) grant, which is a sub-program of the Program for Asia Resilience to Climate Change, a trust fund administered by the World Bank and funded by the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
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Food waste could change the future of fashion, finds Laudes Foundation study
06-Jul-2021 - 0 Comments.
Rice straw, banana stems and other agricultural waste could soon go from farmer’s fields to the fashion runway. A new study shows that there are enough usable agricultural residue streams from farming in South and Southeast Asia for the production of natural fiber textiles at scale.
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Amul chief receives Asia Pacific Productivity Champion award
12-Jun-2021 - 0 Comments.
Dr. R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited (Amul) has been awarded with the prestigious Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Tokyo, Japan regional award.
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Fight against desert locusts will take time, says FAO chief
31-May-2020 - 0 Comments.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) director general QU Dongyu, has warned that efforts to control desert locusts will take time, noting increased concern for the Sahel and Southwest Asia.
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Chaudhary Charan Agriculture University to establish Custom Hiring Centre to help farmers
03-Apr-2020 - 0 Comments.
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (CCSHAU), one of Asia's biggest and leading agricultural research universities in India has recently announced plans to establish Custom Hiring Centre for farmers in the coming months.
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SEAI signs MoU with Malaysia Palm Oil Board for producing palm oil in sustainable way
27-Sep-2019 - 0 Comments.
On the sidelines of Globoil conference held in Mumbai recently, The Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) of India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Global Sustainability support organisation-Solidaridad Network Asia Limited
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Bayer partners with IRRI to advance technologies for direct-seeded rice in Asia
02-Mar-2018 - 0 Comments.
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Bayer have signed an agreement confirming Bayer’s participation in the Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC) led by IRRI
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BASF inks pact with Vital Therapeutics, introduces nutritional solutions enhancing poultry vitality in South Asia
15-Nov-2017 - 0 Comments.
BASF SE have entered a strategic partnership to bring a new choline chloride product to the feed industry in India and the rest of South Asia
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BASF’s biggest Asia Pacific R&D innovation campus inaugurated in India
03-Mar-2017 - 0 Comments.
BASF Group has inaugurated its new Innovation Campus Asia Pacific, located in Mumbai, India.
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Delhi Bird flu: Health certificate must for poultry transportation
21-Oct-2016 - 0 Comments.
In order to check rise in bird flu case, Delhi state government has made health certificate mandatory for all poultry transport to Asia's largest poultry market, Gazipur poultry market.
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Asian Development Bank executive tops list of key speakers at Global AgInvesting Asia
03-Aug-2016 - 0 Comments.
Martin Lemoine, unit head of food and agribusiness investment for the Asian Development Bank, tops off a list of notable speakers at HighQuest’s sixth annual Global AgInvesting (GAI) Asia Seminar in Japan.
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Asian Development Bank executive tops list of key speakers at Global AgInvesting Asia
03-Aug-2016 - 0 Comments.
Martin Lemoine, unit head of food and agribusiness investment for the Asian Development Bank, tops off a list of notable speakers at HighQuest’s sixth annual Global AgInvesting (GAI) Asia Seminar in Japan.
