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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 »
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Information released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shows that in the first eight months of this year, Vietnam’s total import and export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products reached $66.2 billion, up 8.7% year-on-year, according to Vietnam Customs...Read more »
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ROME, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a “Cereal Supply and Demand Briefing” on Sept. 2, lowering the global cereal production forecast. According to FAO, global cereal production this year is expected to decline by 1.4 ...Read more »
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Tajikistan’s Avesta news agency reported on August 24 in Dushanbe that as of August 19, 2022, the area of grain sown in Tajikistan was 304,700 hectares and the actual harvested area was 268,200 hectares, according to the Tajik Ministry of Agriculture. Among them, 137,400 hectares were plant...Read more »
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released its August Major Crop Outlook report, showing that the 2022/23 Canadian canola export forecast was raised to 9.2 million tons, 200,000 tons higher than the previous month’s estimate and a 78.6% jump from the 2021/22 estimate of 5.15 million t...Read more »
