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Indonesian Ambassador to Pakistan Iwan Suyudhie Amri has said that Indonesia and Pakistan agriculture and academic bilateral ties will be further strengthened to get benefit from each other experiences.

In taking the drastic step of suspending Cambodia's tariff-free access to EU markets last week, the European Commission hoped it would incentivize Phnom Penh to repair human rights violations and improve its governance

The IMF has also asked Islamabad "to reduce its trade and commerce reliance on Beijing" and look for other international options by signing free trade agreements with other countries too

India’s trade policy on pulses needs to be “consistent and transparent”, Davis Marit, the agriculture minister of Saskatchewan, the largest pulses producing province of Canada, said on Thursday

Malaysia no longer plans to file a WTO lawsuit against EU restrictions on palm oil-based biofuel and will instead seek to convince European to change its treatment of the crop in a review scheduled for 2021.

The Solvent Extractors' Association of India has compiled the Import data of Vegetable Oils (edible & non-edible) for the month of January 2020.

On the supply side, the region has an abundance of palm oil. Palm oil waste, known as palm oil mill effluent (POME) is the active ingredient that produces the biogas and is generated in large volumes during the production of crude palm oil. Southeast Asia is not short of palm oil mills

Malaysia has held its export tax for crude palm oil unchanged at 6% for March, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board said on Thursday, citing the national customs department.

The downtrend in oils and oil seeds continued in Indore mandis on weak physical demand

The Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) is the biggest contributor to global palm oil research according to a recently released report by Netherlands-based scientific research publisher Elsevier, the university has said in a statement.

OCBC Treasury Research says it expects the prices of oil, food and rubber to continue to be depressed amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

The European Parliament voted on February 12 to accept a free trade agreement (FTA) with Vietnam, a monumental deal that will cut almost all tariffs on exports from one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies.