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On April 24, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued Circular 06/2020 to extend the use of plant protection products containing glyphosate in Vietnam to June 30, 2021.

Hotel, restaurant, and institutional (HRI) sales fell to unprecedented lows in April, with consumers staying home and tourism halted during the seven-week long nationwide state of emergency...

The Government of Vietnam (GVN) issued Decree 57/2020/ND-CP on May 25, 2020 revising Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariff rates on a number of agricultural products.

On May 27, the Japanese Cabinet approved a second 2020 supplementary budget totaling 31.9 trillion yen ($298 billion) to help mitigate the economic impact of coronavirus.

Indonesia’s once thriving Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional food service sector has seen a sharp decline in sales as a result of social distancing measures implemented to mitigate...

On May 27, Japan’s Cabinet Office approved the draft of a second supplementary budget aimed at addressing COVID-19-related impacts.

Responsible government agencies in Thailand are revising their rules and regulations to ban the use of paraquat and chlorpyrifos.

Post forecasts that China’s fluid milk production will grow slightly due to productivity gains on large-scale farms, but the overall herd size will remain unchanged in 2018.

Korean seafood imports totaled $5.43 billion in 2019, down 6.3 percent from 2018. U.S. seafood imports decreased by 11.3 percent from $261 million to $232 million.

Rice export prices increased 4 percent as exporters are fulfilling large-volume contracted shipments.

Japan’s palm kernel shell (PKS) imports have dramatically increased since 2012, when biomass-generated power became eligible for a feed-in-tariff program (FIT).

On May 27, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) announced that it would revise planned imports of nonfat dry milk (NFDM) from a previously announced volume...