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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 »
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In a recent interview, José Guajardo Reyes, deputy minister for desert agriculture programs at Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture, told the public about the Ministry’s and the Production Promotion Agency’s (Corfo) plan to aggressively pursue food cultivation in the desert regions o...Read more »
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According to Bloomberg, global cotton prices rose 30 percent, the highest since 2011. The reason is the unusual high temperature and drought. Currently, India, the world’s leading cotton producing country, also needs to import cotton. The U.S. is reportedly the world’s top cotton expo...Read more »
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When it comes to lettuce, no one should be unfamiliar with it, right? Lettuce is a very nutritious green vegetable in today’s life, and in this era of rising prices, it is also more affordable. In order to increase the yield of vegetables, we have implemented soilless lettuce cultivation. (...Read more »
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Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture said last Thursday (Aug. 18) that it will not extend the ban on sunflower seed exports at the end of August. Russia banned the export of sunflower seeds between April 1 and August 31 to protect the supply of domestic sunflower oil producers. Russia’s M...Read more »
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The Serbian newspaper “Kommersant” reported on August 9 that drought and hot weather are destroying corn in Vojvodina, Serbia’s largest agricultural region. Experts expect total corn production this year to be less than 5 million tons, an amount that will only meet Serbia’...Read more »
