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Agriculture/Farming

Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

‘McNuggetisation’ is coming for the Chinese diet

Syngenta makes crop protection products, including herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.
Energy & Commodities

Syngenta is said to mull Hong Kong IPO after Shanghai pulled

The eight-storey farm has been taken over by land-based fish farm operator AquaChamp and local construction and engineering firm HPC Builders.
Companies & Markets

New owners to revive fish farms vacated by troubled Apollo, Barramundi groups

The Farmer's Outreach Event features more than 10 local farms that showcased their local produce to interested restaurants and brands.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

RWS partners Kranji Countryside Association to support local farmers

Vietnam’s key coffee growing areas have already weathered a powerful typhoon and bouts of drenching rain in recent months, with more expected this week.
Energy & Commodities

Heavy rain in Vietnam’s top coffee-growing region threatens crop

Judging by current trends, the vast majority of matcha in the future is going to end up in soft-serve ice-cream, chiffon cakes, mochi and macarons. It would be a waste if Japan tried to chase that low-end business, when the opportunities at the top of the market are so much more alluring.
Opinion & Features

The matcha craze needs more champagne

Edible community gardens, allotment plots, care farms and rooftop food forests show that small-scale, community-based models can be both productive and restorative.
Opinion & Features

After 30-by-30: Singapore’s regenerative food story

Masnawati, one of the farmers who is working with Mars to improve his crop yield. Through the candy maker's initiatives, farmers are taught that cocoa can be grown with other crops, such as banana and avocado.
ESG

Chocolate therapy: Indonesia’s cocoa farmers learn new ways to boost crop yields

One of the new targets is for Singapore to by 2035 produce 20% of the country’s consumption of fibre – a category which comprises leafy and fruited vegetables, beansprouts and mushrooms.
Singapore

Singapore drops ‘30 by 30’ farming goal, sets revised targets for fibre and protein by 2035

In 2024, Brazil provided about six times more beef to the US than Argentina. However, 76.4 per cent tariffs are likely to affect supply and price.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

The steak economy is more than just high prices

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