India minister's son arrested over deaths at farmers' protest
NEW DELHI (AFP) – The son of an Indian minister has been arrested on preliminary charges of murder, police said on Sunday (Oct [...]
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Young Indonesians turn to farming, offering hope for country's agriculture sector
JAKARTA – Some young Indonesians are abandoning comfortable desk-bound jobs in the city to toil on the land as farmers. In tourism hotspot [...]
Singapore couple give vegetable farms in Beijing a facelift
BEIJING – With its stone walls, hedges and country garden, Fuga Farm could be a traditional concern somewhere in Europe. Pine trees line [...]
China's putting pigs in 13-storey 'hog hotels' to keep germs out
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China is taking hog biosecurity to new levels – 13 storeys in fact. That’s the height of a building in [...]
Extreme heat roasts Christmas tree crops in Oregon
OREGON CITY (REUTERS) – The destruction wrought by the extreme heat and wildfires raging across Oregon this summer includes all kinds of farms [...]
FKS Food & Agri: Turning a humble one-man show into an agri-commodity food empire
SINGAPORE – When Indonesia-based FKS Food & Agri was founded by his father Edy Kusuma as a small fish oil and fish feed [...]