The world’s largest rubber producer has seen earnings and output plunge this year, with Thailand’s government stepping in to fund subsidy and buying programmes to support its rubber growers against a weak economic backdrop.
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Articles & Analysis | Feeding economic growth by focusing on farms and farmers from The Report: Egypt 2014
A major employer and contributor to GDP and export earnings, Egypt’s agriculture sector thrives despite limitations imposed by geography. The country has been one of the breadbaskets of a range of great empires, and the fertile Nile Delta is one of the region’s most important agricultural areas. As demand rises from Egypt’s growing population, the country – the world’s single...
Articles & Analysis | Long-term projects create arable tracts from arid land from The Report: Egypt 2014
Egypt’s single biggest desert agricultural development is the New Valley Project, better known as Toshka ( strictly speaking one of New Valley’s constituent parts), which lies close to the Sudanese border to the west of the Nile, deep in Upper Egypt. Toshka, intended to be a “second Nile Valley”, covers some 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) and is irrigated by a combination of ground...
Articles & Analysis | The expanding citrus industry seeks to add value to output from The Report: Egypt 2014
One of the world’s main producers of oranges, Egypt is also the second-biggest exporter of the fruit. Oranges account for 30% of fruit production and 65% of citrus production, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Adel El Beltagy, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation from The Report: Egypt 2014
What can be done to boost domestic production in line with rising demand for staple commodities?
Hopes are rising that long-awaited reforms of state-owned enterprises and government initiatives can help Indonesia’s agriculture sector rebound from a year of commodity price shocks, which have taken their toll on the country’s biggest exports, particularly palm oil.