The Biden administration is eyeing opportunities to significantly grow U.S. agriculture ex­­ports to southeast Asia, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Ad­­ministrator Daniel Whitley said last week at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Atlanta.

The administration’s plans to develop an Indo-Pacific economic framework, announced late last year, hold promising growth opportunities for agriculture, Whitley explained. 

Negotiations with countries, including Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, are ex­­pected to begin early this year. The White House has indicated several topics of interest for the talks, including trade facilitation, digital trade, supply chain resiliency, clean energy,...