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Start-up company Meatless Kingdom has been chosen as the winner of Asia-Pacific Scale It Up! Innovation Challenge, an innovation program with the goal of helping plant-based protein start-ups in Asia accelerate bringing their products to market. The challenge included 30 companies, competing in a six-month long contest, of which Meatless Kingdom emerged as the winner.

New corporate design displays the strengths and innovativeness of this century-old company. Flour treatment specialist Mühlenchemie looks to the future as MC. New logo and design demonstrate MC’s market leadership, innovativeness and role as a link in the worldwide milling industry.

CESCO will take part in the 18th International Agricultural Exhibition - AgroWorld Uzbekistan 2023, which will be held from March 15 to 17, 2023, at Uzexpocentre NEC, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. They will be ready to receive clients at Pavilion No. 1, booth number A71, starting on March 15.

Growing wheat in drought conditions may be easier in the future, thanks to new genetic research out of the University of California, Davis.

In his speech at the United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine, which was convened on the first anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed calls for the Black Sea Grain Initiative’s extension.

Brazil 2022/23 corn exports (Oct-Sep) are forecast to equal those of the United States at 51 million tons on expanding production and strong exports in the second half of its 2021/22 marketing year (Mar 2022-Feb 2023).

Al-Hazaa Investment Group has opened a bakery development centre in Amman. The centre will serve the group's flour mills in Jordan.

Scoular, a global supply chain company, launched a new name for its food ingredient business that showcases its capabilities in providing innovative ingredients to customers. The new name—Scoular Food Innovation—reflects the company’s food industry expertise and experience supplying on-trend ingredients to meet growing consumer demand.

In their third joint statement, the Heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Food Programme, and World Trade Organization call for continued urgent action to address the global crisis on food and nutrition security.

ADM, one of the world’s leaders in science-backed nutrition solutions, announced that it has opened a new production facility in Valencia, Spain to help meet rising global demand for probiotics, postbiotics and other products that support health and well-being.

Sustained high wheat prices are reversing trends of greater consumption of wheat for some countries in Asia and resulting in a shift back towards rice. The Philippines and Bangladesh exemplify this trend, with both governments spurring rice imports with reduced tariff levels.

From sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and Latin America, the production and consumption of pulses increase the resilience of farming systems and improve lives.