The Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) has notified companies repackaging sugar to register by November 17, 2025 for traceability standardization, amid waning production. Re-packagers need comply within the 3-week window via online registration or face enforcement including possible business suspension. The KSB usually registers all repackaging agencies from individuals to entities to whom it then extends...
The winter kiwifruit harvest is underway in northwest China, with production leader Shaanxi province using smart tech to process deliveries. A new processing plant at Zhouzhi County is currently sorting out the fruits using infrared and precision technologies to ascertain freshness and quality. According to Dahe news on November 2, 2025, the facility photographs the fruits 240...
Wisconsin ended its 2025 ginseng harvest on November 1, kickstarting a marketing campaign lasting till March 31, 2026. Some sellers are however keeping their reserves for now, waiting until tariff headwinds can weaken. The season’s start found Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Xi Jinping of China resolving soybean issues, sidelining ginseng. In...
Declining lobster population in New England has prompted the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) on October 30, 2025 to declare it overfished. A regulatory statement by the ASMFC touted that though not depleted, the population is down by 34% since 2018. Fisheries experiencing the most plunges include those near Massachusetts and Maine, the last...
China finally capitulated by promising to buy 12 million tonnes of soy from the United States, rallying hitherto flailing commodity markets. The announcement by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on October 30, 2025 followed a meeting between Presidents Xi and Trump in South Korea. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins added China will purchase 12 million tonnes...
A catfish stocking drive that began in April 11, 2025 throughout Texas signs off end October, in the San Angelo area. According to the Concho Valley Homepage, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Neighborhood Fishing Program (TPWD) was readying to stock a final 600 catfish. The Concho River will receive fish measuring 9 inches apiece, after which...
Days after consumers in Pakistan paid thrice normal tomato rates, they are now reckoning with onion inflation that has doubled retail prices. Tomato prices did however finally plummet from 600-700 rupees ($2.11-2.46) a kg to 200 rupees ($0.7), only for onions to take over. Various provinces from Punjab to Sindh recorded bulb retail rate increases...
Sugarcane farmers from northern Karnataka in southwest India are seeking price advantage by selling their cane to mills in neighboring Maharashtra. Maharashtra is offering as high as 3,500 rupees ($39.66) per tonne of cane including transportation costs, drawing cross-state farmers. Even so, growers are readying to protest on October 30, 2025 at Belgavi to agitate...
A new not-for-profit banana trade body, the Banana Association of North America (BANA), intends to create awareness for this cheapest healthy fruit. Due to affordability, the humble peeled fruit sates the appetites of millions of North Americans each year. The United States tops consumption volumes worldwide at 3.722 million tonnes (2022) while Canada utilizes 0.518 million tonnes...
Kozushima hamlet on Izu Islands near Tokyo has embraced sturgeon aquaculture for caviar production after spiny lobster landings dropped to a handful. In 1986 when commercial caviar farming was in its infancy in Japan, Kozushima was producing 23,000 kg of spiny lobster. But by 2023, the catch had slashed by 98%, to 400 kg due...