Germany expects production of refined sugars to simmer down by 4.9% in the 2025-26 financial year, shrugging off a 2024 glut. According to Agriinsite on September 8, 2025, Germany’s sugar industry association (WVZ) forecasts an annual decrease by 0.23 million tonnes. On September 7, the WVZ put an initial output projection at 4.4 million tonnes, which could...
Between June 1 and early September 2025, lobster authorities in Nova Scotia, southeast Canada had removed 1,000 traps for placement out-of-season. The Fisheries Department recounted that by September 1 it had dislodged the thousand traps and freed 4,400 lobster. This follows the end of the main commercial season on the Atlantic coast in June, with the next starting...
About 100 million dairy farmers in India will directly reap triple benefits of cuts in the Goods and Services Tax (GST). According to the Ministry of Cooperation on September 6, 2025, inclusive dairy product, input and processing equipment levies will universally decrease. The GST for agricultural equipment will lower to 5% while that for energy gear...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...