China boosts banana growing in Lancang-Mekong region By ZHAO YIMENG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-13 09:05 A worker wraps bananas at the Green Island Agricultural Development (Cambodia) Ltd. in Kratie province, Cambodia, July 17, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Academy based in Hainan province aims to help lift people out of poverty
China plans to help countries in the Lancang-Mekong region tap their banana-growing potential, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences said.
Academy vice-president Xie Jianghui said the banana industry has played a bigger role in recent years in countries along the river, which is known as the Lancang in China and the Mekong outside its borders, and China has begun seeking cooperation in the area and helping to lift local people out of poverty through related businesses.
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Cambodia begins home treatment for Covid patients, logs 25th death
Fri, 9 April 2021
Seventeen Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms started receiving treatment at their home on April 9, just two days after the Ministry of Health issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that provide details regarding treatment for those who are asymptomatic.
They are among the 576 new cases reported by the the ministry on April 9, which hours later also confirmed the country s 25th Covid-19 fatality.
In issuing the SOP, the ministry said out of Cambodia’s over 3,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, roughly 80 per cent are less severe in nature.
Such patients are to be treated by mobile health officials and medical volunteers who have undergone training on how to safely carry out such work, it said.
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Initial focus is on testing and developing those genetic strains of hemp and other plants which offer the greatest potential for creation of new crops and products with applications in a broad range of areas. Asia Green Biotechnology Corp (AGB)
Canada farm inks MoU with Prek Leap agriculture college
Tue, 9 March 2021
Toronto-listed Asia Green Biotechnology Corp (AGB) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture in Phnom Penh (Prek Leap) to advance production techniques of medicinal and commercial crops.
“The purpose of this agreement is to allow AGB and Prek Leap to collaborate in the pursuit and execution of a business development plan tied to the evaluation and implementation of seed and plant production techniques relating to hemp and other plants with medicinal, practical or other benefits,” AGB said on March 8.
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Asia Green Biotechnology Corp. Enters Memorandum of Agreement with Agricultural College in Cambodia to Evaluate Hemp Production Potential
March 8, 2021 GMT
CALGARY, AB / ACCESSWIRE / March 8, 2021 / Asia Green Biotechnology Corp. (“AGB” or the “Company”) (CSE:ASIA) announced today that the Company continues to successfully implement its business plan in SE Asia with the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture in Phnom Penh (“Prek Leap”). The purpose of this agreement is to allow AGB and Prek Leap to collaborate in the pursuit and execution of a business development plan tied to the evaluation and implementation of seed and plant production techniques relating to hemp and other plants with medicinal, practical or other benefits. Prek Leap will play a leading role in the research and development of industrial and other varieti