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BEIJING, Feb 9 Asia Pulse - Soil moisture of winter wheat in north China is good and the sharp fall of temperature will not have a substantial impact on the [...]

JAKARTA, Oct 3 Asia pulse - According to an Australian report, Indonesia receives an average of more than US$644 million per year of benefits thanks to rice breeding - the [...]

BEIJING, May 9 Asia Pulse - China's spring crop sowing has by far completed 60 per cent, much faster than the same time of last year, according to a report [...]

An executive briefing on agribusiness for May 6, 2011, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. CHINA 2011 GRAIN PLANTING [...]

BEIJING, May 6 Asia Pulse - China's grain acreage is likely to rise moderately this year according to the latest survey on farmers' planting intention by the Ministry of Agriculture [...]

MANILA, March 4 Asia Pulse - Citigroup says faster year-on-year inflation in Philippine rice prices can further push the rate of price increases in February 2011 to as much as [...]

BEIJING, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Drought still has minor impact on China's winter wheat production at current time, but the impact may expand to lead to output cut if [...]

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 Asia Pulse - An expert panel set up by the Indian Prime Minister to study the National Advisory Council's (NAC) recommendations on the proposed Food Security [...]

MELBOURNE, June 7 Asia Pulse - Confidence among Australia's farmers has slipped as a result of falling commodity prices, according to a quarterly survey by food and agribusiness banker Rabobank [...]

BEIJING, March 23 Asia Pulse - Farm produce prices in China's major producing areas were rising steadily during March 1-10, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics [...]

SEOUL, Dec 22 Asia Pulse - A group of South Korean scientists has developed a new type of rice that may help treat human anemia, the government said Tuesday. The [...]

KATHMANDU, Aug 17 Asia Pulse - Nepal is suffering a chronic food shortage, but a convergence of crises has created a food emergency which could have serious political repercussions in [...]

PARIS, May 20 Asia Pulse - Japan's policy of limiting rice production to support prices undermines the competitiveness of the nation's farmers and should be scaled back or eliminated, according [...]

BEIJING, Feb 13 Asia Pulse - The grain price in China is basically stable now, and will not climb quickly despite the drought, said Wei Chao'an, vice-minister of agriculture, at [...]

SEOUL, Sept 24 Asia Pulse - South Korea's rice reserve falls below the minimum limit set by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a government report said Tuesday. The findings [...]

SYDNEY, May 20 Asia Pulse - India is trying to keep up food supplies in its neighbouring nations despite domestic constraints to check the inflow of refugees from these countries, [...]

BEIJING, May 16 Asia Pulse - China's wheat price is unlikely to witness large fluctuations in a short period of time, according to an analysis by Shanghai Grain Net. It [...]

MANILA, May 14 Asia Pulse - Asia's response to tightening global grain supplies has aggravated food price inflation and uncertainty, according to an Asian Development Bank report released here Friday. [...]

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 Asia Pulse - The Abhijit Sen Committee, constituted by the government to study the impact of futures trading on essential commodities, is expected to submit its [...]

TAIPEI, Nov 16 Asia Pulse - A nationwide supply of E3 gasoline, a source of biomass energy, could be available by 2011, according to a report on Taiwan's bio-ethanol development [...]

ZHENGZHOU, March 2 Asia Pulse - China's wheat market in the 2007/2008 farming year will fall short of supply, sources from the Zhengzhou Grain Wholesale Market predict. The State Cereals [...]

CANBERRA, Nov 28 Asia Pulse - Lawyers planning a $A60 million ($US46.64 million) shareholder class action against AWB (ASX:AWB) say the Cole report has strengthened their case. Law firm Maurice [...]

CANBERRA, Nov 27 Asia Pulse - The Cole commission has recommended 12 people - all but one of them former AWB staff - be investigated by a new taskforce for [...]

CANBERRA, Nov 23 Asia Pulse - The long-awaited report on Australia's biggest trade scandal, wheat exporter AWB's (ASX:AWB) $A290 million ($US224.62 million) in kickbacks to Iraq, will be handed to [...]

CANBERRA, July 5 Asia Pulse - Worldwide demand for organic food is booming and Australian producers can snare a bigger slice of the market, a government report says. The Rural [...]

SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Yonhap)-South Korea's rice industry could suffer a significant drop in earnings and production if the country signs a free trade pact with the United States, a report [...]

SEOUL, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - South Korea's rice industry could suffer a significant drop in earnings and production if the country signs a free trade pact with the United [...]

CANBERRA, Feb 1 Asia Pulse - Farmers face a tough year as global growth slows and commodity prices fall, but the pain will be cushioned by low interest rates and [...]

SYDNEY, Jan 20 Asia Pulse - Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd has called on Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer to reveal whether they held [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 Asia Pulse - North Korea's food rationing is not meeting its target and negotiations on continuing international assistance programs in the North is not making progress, according [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's food rationing is not meeting its target and negotiations on continuing international assistance programs in the North is not making progress, according to [...]

SYDNEY, Oct 28 Asia Pulse - Shares in the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) (ASX:AWB) have opened stronger, despite a US inquiry finding it was one of more than 2,200 companies [...]