After a 3-year wait, the northeast Japan port of Choshi recaptured the top fishing port position in 2025, courtesy upscaling sardine landings. Powered by a 60% rise in Northwest Pacific sardine catches, this Honshu island’s port saw its overall fish catches grow by 52% through 2025. This effectively pushed aside the incumbent port of Kushiro on the...
Early season cherry import glut by China from Chile has undercut retail prices by 40% starting November 2025 through week 1 of January 2026. Customers in Chengdu in west-central China are purchasing a 5-pound box at 159 yuan ($22.75), unimaginable this time last year. Some grocers are offering plus-sized 4J cherries for 50 yuan ($7.16) a pound,...
The Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) is initiating door-to-door deliveries of parboiled rice in a bid to boost local consumption. MRF’s executive member U Thaung Win said before January 5, 2026 that they will promote domestic utility through home relays and shop retail. Although the southeast Asia country consumes 80% of its production, only a fraction of parboiled,...
Oil prominence in Venezuela has indirectly raised international grain prices days after the United States ousted President Nicolás Maduro on January 3. Maduro has since then pleaded not guilty for drug import charges at a New York court on January 5, 2026. Right after the ouster, oil gained a little after lackluster months amid expectations of a...
Targeting to unyoke smallholder farmers from perennial unfair bonuses, Kenya might double farm-level green tea prices to 100 shillings ($0.77) a kg in 2027. Unveiling a seven-pillar strategy to improve the producer price, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe promised to equate producer prices irrespective of region. Among the seven pillars is a minimum farm-gate price and the establishment of...
Ukraine has begun implementing its newest European Union animal welfare standards to expedite egg, beef, pork, poultry and live pig exports into the bloc. The January 1, 2026 directive is under the Ministry of Development of Economy, Trade & Agriculture, which will maintain consistent animal records for three years. Focus areas include veterinary and current health data...
South Korea with its millennium of beverage-drinking culture is contemplating surcharging disposable cups that serve coffee, amid hospitality industry hostility. On January 2, 2026, the government hosted a ‘Cup Price Display System’ agenda mandating cafés to include prices of cups on coffee receipts. In a bid by the Ministry of Climate, Energy & Environment to...
Sugar prices ended 2025 on a promising note on both sides of the Atlantic after Brazil lowered 2026-27 production projections. Short-covering traders in New York recorded a price hike of 1.35% day-on-day on December 31 for #11 (raw cane sugar). This is even as their London counterparts gained by 0.56% for #5 (white sugar). Although...
Three separate thefts in New England between November and December 2025 have occasioned diverse value losses in crabmeat and oysters, alongside $400,000 worth of lobster meat. A New York Post story of December 30 records full cages of oysters to have disappeared before the crab and lobster heists took place. Firstly on November 22, an...
Peru has recorded a 75% rise in avocado exports to the United States in spring/summer 2025, versus a similar timing from 2024. According to the Peruvian Avocado Commission (CAP)’s president Xavier Equihua via Agraria on December 30, 2025, origin diversification spurred exports. Equihua tabled U.S.-bound dispatches for spring and summer 2025 as having increased to 230 million...