Author: Timothy Wahome (Timothy Wahome)

A recent report prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA/FAS) predicts that the EU grain harvest will increase to 285 million tons in the 2023/24 season from 267 million tons in the 2022/23 season. The Americans predict that all winter cereals will exceed the previous season’s sowing levels. After the severe drought and increased fertilizer prices...

Recently, the new high-yielding, high-oil, multi-resistant and short-term Chinese rapeseed variety “Zhongyou Zao No. 1” selected by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences was measured on site at the demonstration venue in Wan’an County, Jiangxi Province. The yield of rapeseed reached 175.7 kg per mu (0.165 acres) while oil content was 44.16%. The fertility period was about 169 days,...

The use of product batch identification details have often played an important role in alleviating infections occasioned by contaminated consumer products. These labels came to play recently in Florida when FDA posted a recall notice for Lipari-branded ground cumin. This move, reminiscent of a recent recall of ground cinnamon in Spain, has so far led...

Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) has set the budget ceiling for the 2022 campaign of the simplified scheme for small-scale farmers, as published Monday in the Official State Gazette (BOE). This scheme is intended for beneficiaries who receive a total amount of direct payments not exceeding 1,250 euros per year under the Common Agricultural Policy...

The Arabica coffee futures market opened trading on Friday with technical variations in prices on the New York Stock Exchange (ICE Future US). The coffee market  continues to monitor the progress, still at a slow pace, of the harvest in Brazil. The new American data on coffee also weighs on the markets. The Federal Reserve released new interest rate increases in the United...

The increase in the production of Peruvian olives from the Tacna and Arequipa regions was one of the factors that drove the growth of the Peruvian agricultural sector last year. Therefore, in order to improve the standards in the value chain of this product, the National Institute of Quality (Inacal), a public body attached to the Ministry...

Kyiv. Starting from midnight, April 21, Poland has unblocked the movement of Ukrainian agricultural products in transit through the country to other EU countries and Polish seaports. The first truck convoy will depart from the Dorohusk checkpoint to the Netherlands within an hour. Michal Derus, spokesman for the Chamber of Tax Administration in Lublin, told Ukrinform...

Wiesbaden, April 20, 2023. According to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany’s producer prices of industrial products were 7.5% higher in March 2023 than in March 2022. In February 2023, the rate of change had still been +15.8% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the previous month, producer prices fell by...

News summary: Chanthaburi Provincial Governor urges Thai farmers to conjoin with the private sector and export Thai fruit by air to China. The Governor of Chanthaburi, Thailand, has urged the Thai agricultural sector to join hands with the private sector and the airlines of China to export fruits by air. This will increase the existing product distribution...

 On Thursday, April 20, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Chung Hwang-geun met with French Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Marc Fesneau at the Government’s Sejong Office to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the agri-food sector. Minister Jung emphasized that smart agriculture is an important pillar of agriculture with which to respond to...