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  • EU reduces access quotas for Brazilian agricultural products
    Post time: Sep-30-2022

    Local media reported that the EU reduced the access quota for Brazilian agricultural products due to the UK’s exit from the EU. Brazil reached a bilateral agreement with the European Union in which Brazilian agricultural products will have access to the EU market with lower tariffs within t...Read more »

  • South Africa exported 77.7 million cases of fresh grapes this season, up a modest 4%
    Post time: Sep-29-2022

    South Africa’s fresh grape industry (SATI) reports a slight increase in both production and exports for the 2021/22 season. Good weather conditions and new varieties coming into full production this season set the stage for a good harvest, with a total of 77.7 million boxes of fresh grapes ...Read more »

  • Turkmenistan exports 75,000 tons of greenhouse tomatoes
    Post time: Sep-28-2022

    Turkmenistan’s business network reported on September 19 that since the beginning of 2022, the country has exported 75,000 tons of tomatoes grown in greenhouses to Russia and other countries, which is more than two times more than the same period last year. Another 20-25 thousand tons of to...Read more »

  • Indian farmers reduce the area under rice and increase the area under cotton
    Post time: Sep-27-2022

    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 »

  • Russian imports of seeds, amino acids, vitamins from China to grow
    Post time: Sep-26-2022

    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 »

  • USDA approves genetically modified purple tomatoes to be sold on shelves next year
    Post time: Sep-23-2022

    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 »

  • Global action needed to address food crisis
    Post time: Sep-22-2022

    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 »

  • South Africa’s tomato imports from Namibia hit record high
    Post time: Sep-21-2022

    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 »

  • Bangladesh plans to import 1 million tons of rice and wheat by December
    Post time: Sep-20-2022

    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 »

  • USDA raises Russian wheat crop estimate to 91 million tons for 2022-2023 agricultural year
    Post time: Sep-19-2022

    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 »

  • Kazakhstan to increase agricultural exports to China
    Post time: Sep-16-2022

    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 »

  • Egypt doubles cotton exports by 2021
    Post time: Sep-15-2022

    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 »