Sumitomo Corporation has begun a consulting service to Chinese farmers exporting vegetables to Japan, advising them on how best to use chemicals. The move came amid mounting tension between the two countries following the Japanese claim that some Chinese vegetable exports contained unacceptable levels of agrochemicals. Nikkei said that, in addition to the consultancy service, […]
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State-owned companies in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces are building soybean-crushing plants that will add at least 9 per cent to China's crushing capacity, Bloomberg reported. The crushers will help process beans produced under a government programme to grow beans with a high oil content on 667,000 hectares in northeast China, and would help boost farmers' […]
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Cotton production revised downwards
At the end of August, the Cotton and Jute Bureau revised its forecast of China's total cotton crop this year to 4.5m tonnes, Reuters reported. This new forecast was 15.4 per cent less than 2001's record crop of 5.32m tonnes and 200,000 tonnes less than the 4.7m forecast earlier in the month. The bureau said […]
Chinese customs authorities are offering rewards for valid tip-offs in a crackdown on domestic and foreign companies involved in customs fraud, the Financial Times said. Tariff income in the first seven months of this year was 3.9 per cent lower than in the same period last year, giving rise to fears that customs fraud is […]
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Food poisoning incident kills 38
The manager of a food shop in Tangshan, near Nanjing, was questioned as the authorities investigated a major outbreak of food poisoning in the small industrial city. Locals said most of the 38 people who died were schoolchildren and migrant workers who had eaten from the same breakfast snack shop. Chinese media carried only brief […]