Badin: Pakistani farmers are required to produce agricultural crops, fruits and vegetables according to WTO standards for successful international trade, Dr. Abdul Hayee Qureshi, Incharge, WTO Cell,.... More

Canberra: Australia urged Japan to cut beef import tariffs in the hope of lowering Japan's retail beef prices, which soared after the country banned U.S. beef due to a mad cow scare in the United States..... More

Beijing: Despite the mad cow crisis involving beef from the United States, it seems that consumers in China have no reason to worry about the disease. .... More

Washington: Recall Canadian livestock. Stop importing their beef products. Slap Born in the U.S.A. stickers on meat packages in grocery stores. .... More

Thiruvananthapuram: The Agriculture Minister, Ms K. R. Gowri Amma, has said that aerial spraying of Endosulfan in the cashew plantations of Kasaragod has been suspended following complaints of adverse.... More

New Delhi: Genetically modified technology is not the answer to eliminate hunger. Hunger and malnutrition primarily exist not due to lack of production but due to lack of access and distribution .... More

Hong Kong: Hong Kong has suspended imports of poultry and live birds from Taiwan in view of the avian flu positive test of some chickens there, health and agricultural officials said here. .... More

Multan: The pesticides and herbicides on the negative list of America, China, the European Union, Japan and the Organization for Economic Cooperation for Development cannot be imported in the country ,.... More

New Delhi: The recent outbreak of mad cow disease in US has resulted in trade experts viewing it as an opportunity for export of corn and meat from India for better prices and the domestic food industry .... More

Beijing: Nestle's Nesquik product contains "very few" ingredients considered genetically modified (GM) by certain laboratory standards, says a report by Agro-Biotech Centre of the Shanghai Academy .... More

Colombo: As a popular home garden crop, papaya has the potential for expansion within export and domestic markets. It is an exotic fruit which is commonly available in village markets (pola), green .... More

Kochi: The Spices Board has held a meeting of those connected with chilli production, processing and export for developing appropriate measures to satisfy the requirements of safety in spice exports particularly .... More

Washington: The US meat industry opposes labeling meat with its country of origin, rejecting the scheme as too costly and cumbersome, despite the recent discovery of mad cow disease in the United States. .... More

Colombo: The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce is organising a workshop on "Organic Food ingredients for industrial use" in association with CBI Netherlands. CBI is the Centre for promotion of Imports from.... More