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How can you trust Marijuana Suppliers? Cannabis. It is a big deal – especially in the US – one of the biggest markets for Cannabis. California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and many other states (a total of 19) legalize Cannabis in the US. The strict legalities make Cannabis coveted by users for recreational use, skyrocketing […]

Context Bangladesh is largely an agrarian economy, farming and agriculture accounts for 16 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), almost half (about 47 per cent) of the working population depends on this sector for food security and poverty mitigation. With its population projected to reach 230-250 million by 2050, the country faces declining […]

How To Avoid Food Recalls and Contamination? If you ask agriculturalists and agricultural traders about their top 3 broodings, most, if not all, will name transporting, stocking, and shelving perishable items. Due to contamination, unsuitable storage, and other supply chain factors, about 1.3 bn tons of food goes to waste every year; it is ironic […]

An industry-academic alliance for sustainable agriculture & food exports was signed between BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES (BatStateU) and SOURCETRACE, along with FBFP/PCCI, Lipa/Ecop Batangas, in an MOU on November 13, 2020, to foster the dynamic collaboration in technological innovation and entrepreneurship for Sustainable Agriculture, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Food processing; through an SEZ(KIST Park) of Batangas State […]

The luscious flavors of the beautiful farms brought to your plate come at a cost. Obvious costs such as transportation, taxes, nurturing costs, and other supply chain expenditures are unavoidable, yet one exceeds the rest—the global food wastage cost. Estimated to be at around US$ 900 billion each year, these disuse costs hit the food […]

GCC has been a major importer of food The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), with its population booming, has many new opportunities knocking on the door. Few vegetables including tomatoes, cabbages, eggplant, squash and cauliflower and dates, citrus and mangoes are grown in Ras al-Khaimah and other GCC countries. Prawns and fish are raised in fish […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been life-changing as it continues to disrupt livelihoods around the globe. 2020 may very well be ‘a year to be forgotten’ for corporations but it has given rise to a ‘new normal’ by drawing attention to the ambiguities of the traditional supply chain. It has given us a chance to perfect […]

Gone are the days when you believed what the giant corporations said about the food one consumed. Now is the epoch of digital labelling or smart labelling, which can tell you all you need to know about the foods you wish to buy, at a tap of a button. These labels enable consumers to know […]

Interestingly, more than 88 percent of global fish production is utilized for human consumption. Aquaculture and fish products are some of the most traded food items globally and generate livelihood for millions of people around the world. The growth rate of exports in developing countries has seen a rapid rise in the last decades due […]