The country ranks first in pepper exports and second in exporting rice, coffee beans and rubber. In terms of export price, Thailand has been exporting rice for a long time and it has created a trade mark for Thai rice. Vietnam is one of the most populous countries but also one of the biggest agricultural exporters in the world. The most important reason for the gains is that Vietnamese farmers are industrious and creative people. Innovative farmers, science keep agriculture sector plowing...

Although, the SBP realized that exports slowdown can be explained by factors such as the adverse impact on textile exports to the EU following the loss of Generalized System of Preference (GSP) and persistence of the discriminatory antidumping duty on bed linen exports from Pakistan. Although, the SBP realized that exports slowdown can be explained by factors such as the adverse impact on textile exports to the EU following the loss of Generalized System of Preference (GSP) and persistence...

But when domestic rice production was not sufficient, there was no other choice but to import the commodity, he said. He said , in principle, the governemnt wanted the people's need for the staple to be always met by farmers' rice. Bulog prepares Rp6 trillion to buy 1.5 million tons of farmers' rice. Mustafa also said the agency would conduct market operations in regions where farmers were not yet facing harvest time. Boediono on the occasion also touched on the governemnt's rice import policy.

Farmers are moving acres to corn to take advantage of a 74 percent jump in futures in the past year, which spurred meat producers such as Tyson Foods inc. to raise prices and cut margins for grain processors such as Bunge ltd. Weather and commodity price swings may alter the actual acreage figures. farmers will sow the most acres of corn since World War II and cut soybean plantings after record ethanol production boosted grain prices to a 10-year high, a government survey showed. Farmers...

A group of 200 California rice farmers are concerned that genetically modified rice could contaminate their crops. These countries' citizens are particularly adverse to genetically modified foods, and might drastically reduce imports of California rice if they learned it were contaminated with GM strains, concludes a market study compiled this month by Bryant Christie inc. on behalf of RPC. They have made keeping genetically modified rice out of California a key issue because they fear it...