Head of Indonesia’s National Food Agency (Bapanas) Arief Prasetyo Adi said on January 10 that the country plans to export corn to Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in 2023.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has completed an anti-dumping investigation into high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) imported from China and the Republic of Korea, according to the MoIT’s Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV).
Cobtain – a group of Vietnamese students, beat thousands of contestants from over 30 countries to become the winner at the SAGE Global 2020 Competition with their idea of recycling corn cobs into agricultural products.
The Philippines is seeking to import 300,000 tonnes of corn to cover a shortfall in the domestic supply caused by the El Nino dry spell and to prepare for the expected dramatic growth of local hog and poultry sectors, said Philippine Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol on May 21.
Facing water shortages, farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have grown corn on nearly 2,000ha of rice fields for the 2018-19 winter-spring crop.
A series of activities celebrating the 73rd anniversary of National Day (September 2) will take place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism from August 31 to September 30, reported the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on August 27.
The first direct shipment of US corn to Vietnam has arrived in the country with the assistance of the Quang Ninh Port Joint Stock Company, the USDA, and the US Grains Council.
Vietnam has so far this year imported 4.13 million tonnes of corn worth 825 million USD, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
In a remote commune populated by Xe Dang ethnic group in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, many villages have become prosperous by creating large fields for modern farming.
All corn fields in Vietnam use hybrid seeds, with the volume of seeds used for annual production amounting to about 20,000 tonnes, said the Plantation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The northern province of Ha Nam has given nod to a milch cow farming project in Thanh Nguyen commune, Thanh Liem distrtict invested by the Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to allocate 2,016 tonnes of rice seeds, 325 tonnes of corn seeds and 58 tonnes of vegetable seeds to nine provinces which were severely affected by natural disasters.
Economists and experts warn that Vietnam should restructure its farming industry, making it less rice-oriented and focusing more on producing breeding materials.
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