Austrian food exports in 2013 rose 4.5 percent to 9.5 billion euros (around 13 billion U.S. dollars).
The 79th International Green Week Berlin agriculture fair was officially opened on Thursday evening.
Chinese authorities on Thursday stressed the need to ensure food safety ahead of China's Spring Festival holiday.
The Netherlands is the number one place in the world when it comes to food quality and eating.
An official has stressed China's "active and cautious" policy toward genetically modified (GMO) food, with the safety certificates for the country's GMO rice and corn expiring soon.
Bright Food Group Co Ltd, China's second-largest food producer, acquired a midsized Australian dairy company following the purchase of Manassen Foods in the same country.
China is one of the world's lowest consumers of Chocolate - but this is changing fast.
Colombia produced 10.9 million 60-kg bags of coffee in 2013, up 41 percent over the previous year.
India is to host an international coffee festival in its southern city of Bengaluru later this month.
Many visitors to the Middle Kingdom come especially to taste its many culinary delights. The China Daily food team spreads out across the country for a look at the hottest dining trends in China.
For the first half year of 2013, the industrial value-added output of food processing ranked second in Heilongjiang province following petroleum and natural gas exploitation.
Eight suspects involved in five food safety incidents have been transferred to judicial organs and another 46 officials have been punished for neglect of duty.