Toray Industries recently announced an investment of over USD 8 million in Thai entity Cellulosic Biomass Technology Co., Ltd. in order to upgrade cellulosic sugar production for fibers, resins, and films derived from inedible biomass. Toray Industries is a...
The United States government launched its first agricultural e-commerce platform in the Philippines through the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Philippine’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Nueva Ecija...
Dutch company Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and Polish specialist Instanta Sp. z o.o. (Instanta) have officially launched ILD Coffee Vietnam, a freeze-dried instant coffee production facility situated in Binh Duong province, Vietnam. This venture boasts an annual output...
Petronas’s education arm, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and Malaysian Kuwaiti Investment Co Sdn Bhd (MKIC) have collaborated on the ‘Optimization of Biomass Waste-to-Wealth’ project in Sabah, which aims to explore the use of biomass from palm oil...
RegenX, headquartered in Singapore, has successfully secured USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact, a venture capital firm specializing in climate tech solutions. RegenX’s core mission revolves around regenerative agriculture, with a central goal...
Private equity firm Growtheum Capital Partners just announced a strategic partnership with PT ABC Kogen Dairy. KIN Dairy is a vertically integrated dairy manufacturer producing yogurt and milk products under the brand “KIN” and also operates one of the largest and the...
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has just launched the Aquatic Animal Health Services (AAHS). The service aims to help aquaculture farms prevent and control diseases that can affect the survival and growth rate of aquatic animals and impact harvests. SFA has engaged...
The industrial park and real estate logistics developer and operator arm of Ayala Corporation, AyalaLand Logistics Holdings Corporation (ALLHC), is placing a significant bet on its cold storage facilities as it seeks to increase its capacity by at least four times its...
Poland’s agriculture ministry has just announced that 11 beef-processing companies in Poland have been granted authorization to export beef meat and beef offal to Thailand. The companies received permission to export to Thailand for the next three years. The...
My Myracle is the only postbiotics manufacturing company in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, focusing solely on plant-derived bacteria. Partnering with the University of Putra Malaysia, My Myracle utilizes non-heat-killed techniques to derive metabolites from live...
Indonesia recently celebrated the production of its first locally-made organic cheese. This cheese represents the concrete outcome of a collaborative initiative that harnessed Danish agricultural knowledge in partnership with Indonesian counterparts. The primary aim...
The Innovation Partnership Grants, a funding scheme backed by the Australian government, has recently announced to provide AUD 2 million (USD 1.3 million) to capitalize on tech-based innovation in Vietnam’s agriculture sector. The scheme targets to distribute the...
