Israel on September 4, 2025 inked a deal to grow wheat in Moldova through remote seed and agritech support for food security. Under the contemporary “full shelves” policy and the “Treat wheat” initiative of 2022, Israel eyes 30% wheat sufficiency by 2035. The business-oriented production exchange represents the first bilateral gesture with Moldova since Israel opened its embassy there early 2025.  According...

Azerbaijan has recorded 536 tonnes or $1.7 million in avocado imports in the half-year (H1) 2025 ending June, an exponential improvement. According to the southwestern Asia country’s State Statistical Committee, this was a 28% value spike and 13% volume increment from half-year 2024. Peru led trade momentum in H1 2025 by supplying 253 tonnes worth $837,000 or 50% of the total quantity...

The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction in Auckland, NZ recorded a fortnightly price drop of 4.3% on September 2, 2025 from worldwide market turmoil. Two weeks earlier, prices at the biweekly auction had shed 0.3%, a reflection of market changes faraway from New Zealand. The biggest losers this week were buttermilk powder by 6.3%, skim milk powder (5.8%) and whole milk powder...

Market prices of citrus fruits are stabilizing in the U.S. after Canada removed retaliatory tariffs on September 1, 2025. Ottawa exempted majority consumer goods it had previously taxed with 25% duty worth US$2.98 billion. The aim is smoothening ongoing bilateral negotiations and strengthen privileges accruing to members of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). So far under the USMCA and other...

State-run farms under the Green Schemes program in Namibia are elevating food self-sufficiency following strong presidential commitment. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on September 1, 2025 finished her Green Schemes’ tour at Unam Ogongo Campus in the country’s north. She said that a nation that can’t feed itself is bereft of respect, and thus the impetus to modernize local agriculture. One such modern project...

With sugar getting pricier daily, Pakistan on September 2, 2025 scrapped the 47.5% imports tax, to near duty-free levels. This comes after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) finally relented its antagonism following recent tiffing.  The IMF had in July 2025 rejected a governmental import subsidy of 55 Pakistani rupees ($0.19) a kg, citing unfair trade. Now that the tug of war with...

Three years of trialing rope-less or “pop-up” fishing gear in California’s restricted Dungeness crab areas are showing reliable outcomes. Positive feedback so far in 2025 has come from fishermen who crabbed late into June beyond the normal commercial fishing timeline. One of these is Brand Little, who acclaimed his chance to fish until late June, extending the usual April 9...

Corporate India has introduced new long life grapes varieties, connecting a successful 2024-25 global export campaign to 2026. Sangle Agro Processing Pvt Ltd’s director Sajaram Sangle cites that some new cultivars can withstand 60 transit days. Sangle identifies Canada and the United States as some of the virgin targets for the seedless types now under trial. The director isolates long shelf cultivars, namely Ivory,...

Beef production in Down Under could break records in 2025 thanks to herd stability, according to the Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). In its September 1, 2025 update, the MLA projects the country to process 2.79 million tonnes of beef this year. This is the latest major development since 2023’s price-crashing spike in the national herd count to 28.7 million head.  Two factors...

Despite Kenya registering a yearly volume fall from tea exports by 28.2 million tonnes halfway through 2025, shipments to India surged. Nairobi dispatched 6,693.491 tonnes of tea to Mumbai in the January-June 2025 timeline, up from corresponding 2024’s 4,615.103 tonnes. Accounting for the 45% surge were 300 subsidiary companies in India that imported the tea and blended it locally.  Duty-free trade agreements between...