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Farmers in the world’s second-largest rice producer had planted 39.9 million hectares of rice as of Sept. 16, down 4.5 percent from a year earlier, according to India’s Agriculture Ministry. India’s agriculture ministry said sugarcane sown area has risen to 5.57 million hectares...Read more »
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MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russian imports of seeds, amino acids and vitamins from China are expected to grow, taking into account the changing geopolitical situation, according to a study provided to RIA Novosti by the Russian Agricultural Bank. According to the study, the geopol...Read more »
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a genetically modified purple tomato. The tomatoes will be commercially grown after receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and will be on the shelves in 2023. According to reports, this purple tomato is call...Read more »
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Since this year, affected by geopolitical conflicts, the new pneumonia epidemic, extreme weather and developed economies to adjust monetary policy and other multiple factors, international food prices are high and volatile, the global food industry chain supply chain suffered a serious impact, ma...Read more »
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Namibia’s tomato exports to South Africa reached an all-time high in July, according to a recent report released by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), News24.com reported on September 13. The report said Namibia exports an average of R9.4 million worth of tomatoes to South Africa each mon...Read more »
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The Bangladesh government has moved to import about 1 million tons of rice and wheat from four countries by December to avoid any domestic food shortage amid global instability, according to industry sources. The government will import rice from India, Vietnam and Myanmar and wheat from Russia, t...Read more »
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) raised its forecast for the Russian wheat harvest to 91 million tons for the 2022-2023 agricultural year (July 1, 2022 to July 30, 2023), according to the USDA’s September report. The report said, “Based on the winter wheat harvest released by...Read more »
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Kazakhstan News Agency/Nursun/September 15 – Kazakhstan will increase its agricultural exports to China. According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, under the agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Commerce of China, the Chinese governmen...Read more »
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The Pyramid website, August 25, Egypt’s Central Authority for Mobilization and Statistics data show that Egypt’s cotton production reached 2.3 million kanthal (about 117,000 tons) in 2021, an increase of 33% year-on-year. Cotton exports reached 1.7 million kanthal (about 86,000 tons) ...Read more »
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As of Sept. 2, India, the world’s second-largest rice grower, had planted 38.4 million hectares of rice, down 5.6 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture. By comparison, the area of rice sown in the week ending Aug. 18 was 8.25 percent behind t...Read more »
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World sunflower seed production in 2022/23 is forecast at 53.4 million tons, despite downward revisions in EU production, offset by upward revisions in Russia and Ukraine, according to data from Hamburg, Germany-based analyst Oil World. Oil World forecasts that global sunflower oil exports will i...Read more »
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MOSCOW, Sept. 1 (Sputnik) – Nordic Green, the largest tomato farm in Trelleborg, southern Sweden, has decided to temporarily shut down production for two months during the upcoming winter due to high electricity prices, according to the Swedish evening newspaper Aftonbladet. Nordic Greens, ...Read more »
