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Executives within Bangladesh’s poultry industry are claiming that climate change is posing major management and operational problems as temperatures cause heat stress and promote disease among birds, increasing mortality rates.  

Industry insiders say that vector-borne diseases and cases of low-pathogenic avian flu, fowl cholera, Newcastle disease, heat stroke and gumboro (infectious bursal disease) are promoted by higher temperatures in sub-tropical Bangladesh.…

COTTON

Cotton maybe one of the most popular fibres for clothing and accessories because of its universality, timelessness, and availability, but this past year has shown that the fibre is not immune to volatile economic markets. World cotton production fell by 17% to 21.65 million tonnes in 2015-2016, the lowest volume since 2003-2004, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).…

Thailand’s online packaged food market is small, but growing fast. Indeed, online sales of packaged food in Thailand are expected to grow dramatically by 2020 as Internet penetration increases and traffic in major cities makes in-person shopping inconvenient. Just over 40% of Thailand’s population can access the Internet at home, up from just 22.4% in 2010, according to the World Bank.…

A slowly recovering economy and a string of political crises may have weakened consumer spending in Thailand, but appetite for packaged premium brands, remained strong, according to industry experts. Overall, packaged food sales (retail and food services including premium) soared from USD8.06 billion in 2011 to USD 11.07 billion in 2015, according to data from London-based market researcher Euromonitor International, with sales projected to continue to grow through 2020, albeit at a slower pace.…

Demand for ready-to-eat meals is growing continuously in Thailand on the back of drastically changing lifestyles in the kingdom. As an ever greater share of the population lives in the condominiums of Bangkok’s sprawling suburbs; rural areas turn into industrial clusters; traffic jams worsen; and more family members work outside, the retail value of ready-to-eat meals is forecast by London-based market researcher Euromonitor International to grow this year by 9.9% year-on-year to Thai Baht THB7.4 billion (USD213.4 million) after having expanding in value at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 13.5% from 2010-14, according to another London-based market researcher, Mintel.…

Beihai Beingmate Nutrition Food, a Guangxi–based subsidiary of Chinese infant formula maker Beingmate Baby & Child Food is to establish a new dairy joint venture (JV) with two Chinese private investors, according to a company Chinese language statement.

Also located in Beihai, the new JV – Beihai Beingmate Dairy – will produce condensed milk, with other dairy products to be announced in the future, using “Beihai Beingmate’s existing equipment, experience, research capacity, as well as the two individuals’ extensive resources in China’s dairy industry,” said the note.…

The market for packaged food with health claims is still small in Thailand, with the organics food sector being particularly tiny. But functional food sales growth rates have been picking up markedly on the back of an aging population translating into increasing awareness of health problems, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obesity and diabetes.…

THE CONCEPT of 3D printing in the food retail sector has been under serious consideration since 2014. And while major brands and innovators are still investigating the technology, they are yet to become an integral part of their production systems and business models.…

Earlier this year Italian pasta giant Barilla presented its latest technological innovation: a next generation 3D printer that swaps ink for pasta dough and is able to make unique pasta shapes in just minutes.

Barilla is among the world’s first food producers to leverage the latest digital technologies and apply them to food production.…

There is “irrefutable evidence” the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed over war-torn Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was hit by a Russia-made BUK missile from the 9M38 series, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) told a Wednesday (September 28) press conference for relatives of the 298 victims.…