Agriculture

ADB has approved a $600 million loan to support Indonesia’s program of irrigation improvement to enhance food security and reduce poverty in rural areas.

ADB today signed a $95 million private sector loan with Jiangsu Lihua Animal Husbandry Stock Company (Lihua) to develop inclusive and sustainable livestock farming in the People’s Republic of China.

Uralkali is the prizewinner of the 4th All-Russian Competition for Best Practices of Employers – Creating the Future

ChemChina announced today that the tender offers to purchase all publicly held Syngenta shares and ADSs will end on 4 May, 2017.

ChemChina and Syngenta today announced that they have received approval from the Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica in Mexico (COFECE) for the proposed acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina.

ChemChina and Syngenta today announced that they have received approval from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the proposed acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina.

The partnership primarily aims to enhance sustainable rice-based farming systems through capacity building activities - including assisting governments draw up and implement national and regional policies and strategies - to the benefit of small-scale farmers, especially women.

Acron Group has signed twelve agreements with regional agriculture departments for mineral fertiliser supplies in 2017.

Minister of Agriculture and the Environment of Finland Kimmo Tiilikainen, accompanied by a business delegation, will visit Korea on 9-11 March.

FAO and the Vatican havecalled for an intensified international push to stamp out human rights abuses in the world's fishing industry — including trafficking of people and forced labour — as well as an end to the scourge of illegal fishing.