The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) granted approval for Aquaterra® Omega-3 oil for use in fish feed applications according to a statement released on June 28, 2023. It is said to be a more sustainable source of omega-3 oil as it reduces utilization of the world’s marine resources while enhancing aquaculture growth. The approval stated that Aquaterra® […]

(VAN) Covid-19 pandemic leads to increasing demands for ginger, turmeric, and garlic worldwide, pulling up the prices of those spices. According to the Vietnam Industry and Trade Information Center  (VITIC), the world demand for ginger is constantly increasing. An important reason is that the Covid-19 epidemic has made consumers increase their use of this multi-use […]

A project to produce new rice varieties and  commercial organic rice with high-tech applications has been commenced in Ngu Phuc commune, Kien Thuy district, Hai Phong City by Thuan Loi Company Limited. This is the first high-tech rice production project in the city. Prepared in June 2016, this project will carry out trials of four […]

A consortium of researchers from Australia’s The University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF Qld) and China’s Beijing Genomics Institute has discovered that sorghum, a drought-tolerant African crop, has more genetic variation than previously reported. Through whole-genome sequencing, the team obtained the genomic data of 44 sorghum lines to […]

The outcomes of a joint Vietnam-UK research project on sequencing the genomes of a number of Vietnamese indigenous rice varieties were made public at a workshop in Hanoi on August 28. The project, running between January 2011 and June 2013, is within the international cooperation framework between Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology and the […]

The US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has recently reviewed and conducted a plant pest risk assessment on BCS Event FG72 soybean. The genetically modified soybean event FG72 soybean (Glycine max cultivar Jack) of Bayer CropScience expresses two proteins which impart herbicide tolerance, 2mEPSPS from corn (Zea mays) and 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) from […]

Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan have produced the first comparison of DNA sequences between the domestic tomato and its wild cousins. They also identified which genes are expressed in the present-day tomato. According to the lead author of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the […]

The Government has recently issued regulations on organisation and operation of a national fund for technological renewal in service of national development. The 1 trillion VND (47 million USD) fund will supply financial support to organisations, individuals and businesses on technological research, transfer and renewal. As a non-benefit State-owned financial institution, it will select scientific […]

Vietnamese scholars and their US partners have earned three awards in a US Government programme to fund scientific research in developing countries, according to a press release issued by the US Embassy in Vietnam. The result came after the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Partnerships for […]

Global food security has remained stable during the past year despite the challenges of food price volatility, political unrest, the ongoing European political crisis, and severe drought in the Midwestern U.S. and Eastern Europe. This is according to the 2013 Global Food Security Index (GFSI), released in Santiago, Chile by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). […]