Read more on Indian dairy giant Amul's lambasting of plant-based dairy, sustainable sea cucumber production, a potential palm oil trade war and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for July 2021.
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Read more on Indian dairy giant Amul's lambasting of plant-based dairy, sustainable sea cucumber production, a potential palm oil trade war and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for July 2021.
Click through the gallery to see them all.
The head of India's largest milk brand Amul has hit out at excess 'dairy dumping' from foreign countries and the recent rise of 'highly processed' plant-based dairy as major threats to India's largest agricultural sector.
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Singapore's The Aquaculture Group expects to harvest its first sea cucumbers (Holothuria scabra) later this year, a much-prized delicacy in Chinese cuisine which is endangered in the wild due to overfishing.
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Palm oil and sustainability disagreements have caused ASEAN-EU trade relations to sour even further over the past year with a potential trade war on the line, even as the UK has moved to soften its stance to cement better ASEAN relations post-Brexit.
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Australia-based Deliciou has its eye on China and other Asian markets with its market-first shelf-stable plant-based meat products after successful launches in both Australia's Coles and Woolworths and US' Whole Foods supermarkets.
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Nestle Indonesia has high hopes for the prospects of the growth of the ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages segment in the country, having recently broken grown on a new factory dedicated to beverage production.
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Nissin cup noodle lid innovation, Suntory's IoT bottled water plant, Coca-Cola's freeze-dried drinks and more feature in this edition of Japan Focus.
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Alcohol has emerged as the sector with the largest number of counterfeit cases in India in 2020, with experts attributing this to a lack of enforcement as well as high profits available for counterfeiters during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Singapore-based Angie's Tempeh is exploring the idea of developing Asian foods such as dim sum with tempeh along with expanding into the ready-to-eat space, as part of its plan to tap into mainstream retail channels after receiving a major funding boost.
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UAE-based milk company Koita is aggressively expanding its online and offline presence in Singapore, with a recent launch into one major supermarket chain, and a listings in the works for a global e-commerce player.
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The New Zealand food and grocery industry has lashed out against academic claims that the sector has heavily engaged in 'COVID-washing', or used the pandemic to promote 'unhealthy' products, calling this an example of 'confirmation bias' and 'not based on genuine evidence'.
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