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Latest news, in-depth features and opinion on food and agriculture, with a focus on Hong Kong, mainland China and Asia.

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  • Chinese scientists have grown rice in greenhouses in the deserts of its Xinjiang region, in half the time as it takes to grow the variety elsewhere
  • Country is looking for new areas to cultivate crops as self-sufficiency demands are on the rise in era of climate change, trade tensions
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Ebrahim Raisi, the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka since 2008, says the project marks his country’s ability to share knowledge with other nations.

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The American chicken franchise, fast-food rival McDonald’s and US coffee chain Starbucks have all become targets of a nationwide boycott movement triggered by Israel’s war on Gaza.

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Team led by a group of Chinese researchers cloned a specific gene that is resistant to Asian soybean rust amid Beijing’s focus on food security and tech self-reliance.

A new type of rapeseed engineered in China can improve upon yields by 50 per cent, increasing the domestic harvest of edible oil and lessening the country’s reliance on imports.

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Chinese-produced durian is set to be available to the public in July, with production from the tropical island of Hainan likely to reach 200 tonnes this year, although Thailand and Vietnam are set to remain the largest sources.

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Stunted economic growth on mainland and Sino-American political challenges weighed on 2023 decline led by agricultural and semiconductor shipments.

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Though trade ties have taken a hit in other areas, the EU’s agriculture commissioner says a stronger relationship between China and Europe can and should exist in food and farming products.

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Cows and goats – previously thought not susceptible – have joined the list of infected animals, and a US farmworker has caught the disease after exposure to cattle.

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China has set a goal for higher grain yields by 2030 – a necessity only likely to grow more acute as its stock of arable land has stagnated and the global food market has become more volatile.

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President Yoon Suk-yeol has faced a growing backlash for commenting on the price of spring onions during a supermarket photocall amid surging food inflation in South Korea.

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A fishing trawler exploded and sank in Hong Kong, in 1977, when marine police were inspecting the boat. Three officers were killed and 10 injured, in the blast, caused by an LPG canister in the hold.

Experts say rice-hungry Indonesia should diversify its sources of carbohydrates to help people be more resilient to rice price fluctuations.

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China is accelerating commercialisation of higher-yielding genetically modified (GM) crops as part of its efforts to improve agricultural efficiency amid Beijing’s food security push.

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The move had been widely expected this month, and a formal announcement from Chinese commerce authorities shows how much ties with Canberra have improved in the past year.

A report said more than US$1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry.

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