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...
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...
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...
As the 2025 fishing season signs off, Southeast Alaska’s pink salmon sector is on the cliff edge. This is after the Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) recorded a 20% harvest reduction from previous targets. The Southeast and Prince William Sound fisheries have reported steep haul cuts for companies and individual fishers alike. Among companies is Trident Seafoods,...
A hub in mountainous Al Baha city in southwestern Saudi Arabia has planted 500,000 coffee trees, exceeding the initial target of 300,000. The development crowns a July 3, 2024 conception by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, under the Vision 2030 strategy. Al Baha’s mega agricultural hub in Mashouqa is now the Gulf region’s...
Malaysia is actively anticipating the European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) on especially coffee and palm oil exports after a year’s moratorium. On August 26, 2025, the Ministry of Commodities tightened contingency plans to make mainstream industries responsible enough. The aim is to claim the ‘low risk’ status on the December 30, 2025 deadline and enjoy moderate export inspections. Malaysia’s current...
Variations in lobster meat prices and inflation made Maine’s eateries consistently dole out lobster roll meals at top dollar this summer, a reprise of 2024. An assessment by the Bangor Daily News covering end May through mid-August 2025 showed steady restaurant pricing. According to the report, 10 facilities from Portland to Lubec averaged $24.95-35.41 across different roll sizes, from...
India will provide sugar export quotas to only capable mills and simultaneously maintain current ethanol rates, says the central government in New Delhi. Warranting such quotas is the country’s sugarcane crop, which the Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra on August 26, 2025 stated as quite bright-looking. Sanjeev added that this means mills that can ship sugar from...
A productive potato harvest in Plateau State in north-central Nigeria has left farm-gate rates catapulting downward – and farmers seeking answers. By August 25, 2025, marketers across the Jos Plateau were barely fetching a fifth of the prices they had been commanding just earlier. A 50-kg sack is averaging 30,000-40,000 Naira ($19.50-26), plummeting from the earlier 150,000-170,000 Naira ($97.50-110.50)...
Current surges in the prices of fresh vegetables in the United States from weather, inflation or tariffs could ameliorate through 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on August 25, 2025, fresh vegetable rates might decrease by 0.8%, year-on-year (y-o-y). The USDA gives the decrease an accuracy interval of -2.3 and 0.8%, which more...