Importers China and India are riveted by falling global natural rubber prices involving a wait-and-see trade game. India was in mid-August 2025 importing RRS-4 quality rubber at 190 rupees ($2.17) a kg, down from 213 rupees ($2.43) earlier. Busy exploiting an import gap of lately inactive China, the subcontinent awaits 40,000 tonnes of rubber this August. The south...
The government and cottage industrialists in Uganda are keen to ride the wave of booming raw cocoa sales by enhancing processing. In the year ending June 2025, cocoa sales hit an unprecedented 72,545 tonnes, worth 2.2 trillion shillings ($620 million). Hitherto in the 2012-22 timeline, annual sales had been averaging around 32,000 tonnes, worth 265...
Rock lobster stakeholders in New Zealand are airing views on a plan to cut Northland Island’s catches before September 22, 2025. Guidelines on the proposal have already appeared on the website of the Ministry of Primary Industry for public feedback. According to the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, Shane Jones, cuts will bring sustainability to the whole...
Rains at home and surpluses elsewhere have turned wheat bearish for producers in southeastern and northeastern Australia. By August 12, 2025, bulk prices were down to A$330 ($216.18) a tonne in northern New South Wales and across Queensland. The low outlook follows July saturation that revived the southern crop that includes the Victoria wheat belt. Rainfall has...
China temporarily imposed 75.6% duty on grain canola imports from Canada on August 12, 2025, effective two days later. Now on its second leg, the tiff began in March 2025 with 100% levy on canola oil and meal imports. The latest action will impact the world’s top importer of rapeseed, which China almost exclusively buys from...
The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) of Nigeria on August 11, 2025 charged four companies with 400,000 tonnes of processed sugars to undercut imports. Nigeria imports 1.4 million tonnes of the agro-commodity annually, as of 2023, 60 times its current production capacity. To offset dependence, the NSDC is ramping up domestic production, beginning with an August 5 sugar...
After shipping 1.3 million tonnes of potatoes halfway through 2025, Egypt is already exploiting weekly exports of rival tuber, the sweet potato. Just after the August-January marketing season begun, sweet potato shipments topped the weekly agricultural dispatches ending August 10, 2025. According to Amwal Alghad news, quoting the National Food Safety Authority (NSFA), the tuber led vegetable...
Weekly cotton prices in Pakistan fluctuated by over 500 Pakistani rupees ($1.76) in different markets before August 11, 2025, amid falling production. Diverse hubs from Sindh in the country’s southeast to Punjab in the northwest preempted these wide pricing differences. Punjab’s rate per maund (37 to 40 kg) was 16,000-16,500 rupees ($56.16-57.56) while Sindh’s 16,000-16,400...
Chocolate spread prices worldwide could soon rival rising hazelnut wholesale rates in Türkiye, where the 2025 harvest battled frost. The worst cold snap since 2014 drenched the country’s Black Sea region in April 2025, downing output to 453,000 tonnes from 717,000 tonnes in 2024. Along with losses came shortage and price increments, which means hazelnut pastes are likely...
Dorper and merino traders in Australia are cashing in on record rates from tight markets with surprisingly big lamb sizes. Their rates topped A$479.50 ($312.63) a head on August 7, 2025, just days after scoring another record. Australia has had a busy marketing year at home and abroad and expects annual sheep exports to surge by 25%...