Record production and less biodiesel blend percentage point to uptick soy product exports by Brazil in 2025, the industry says. According to the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove) on April 23, 2025, a bumper soy harvest at 170 million tonnes will push exports. The tally captures the output of the erstwhile harvest in February 2025, which...
Tanzania is launching an ambitious agricultural corridor plan on April 27, 2025, amid a surprise ban on agri-food imports from South Africa and Malawi. The East African nation boasts crop and livestock product diversity that inform both its ambitious agricultural plans and exports. Indeed, just before the retaliatory ban, the country announced the upcoming launch of...
A spring snow hail on April 10-12, 2025 that blighted apricot fields in Türkiye is bringing back recent export memories. The eastern Mediterranean nation cumulatively exported $330 million worth of apricots in the half decade ending 2024, reports Daily Sabah. Currently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is restoring orchards for the 2026 crop. However, valuable apricot export records...
Arabica coffee futures in New York on early April 23, 2025 rose to a 2 1/2-week high adrift a strengthening Brazil’s currency. Nasdaq reports that Arabica beans for May and July deliveries notched 2.96% and 3.22% respectively on the 23rd in daily advances. Meanwhile, Robusta at the International Coffee Exchange (ICE) futures benchmark retreated because it does...
An Executive Order by the U.S. President Donald Trump on April 17, 2025 to reopen protected Pacific fisheries is drawing mixed takes. However, for canneries that process the well-priced tuna in American Samoa, the order comes as a windfall. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument last allowed fishing within 50 miles of its waters before 2009. ...
New taxes on sugar in Kenya and Pakistan for generating developmental and governmental revenue, respectively, might strengthen retail pricing. In Pakistan, the governmental retail price was at 164 rupees ($0.60) a kg in March 2025, up 13% year-on-year. As of mid-April 2025, Kenya’s ex-factory sugar sold at 107 shillings ($0.82) a kg while retail hugged 134 shillings ($1.03). Both...
A 2019 U.S.-Mexico agreement to suspend investigations on tomato dumping is ending July 14, 2025, rendering market prices uncertain. The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided not to renew the pact and instead slap imports a 20.9% duty. Since Mexico provides 70% of tomatoes in the U.S.’ market cheaply, the termination could raise prices this summer. The expiring Tomato...
Farmers in the southwestern Spain olive heartland of Andalusia are denouncing plans to install eight solar power projects here. This is happening at a time when olive oil rates are back to earth after experiencing highs through 2024. But keen to reap the 3,000 sunlight hours that this Mediterranean area receives yearly, industrialists could cost the region’s olive sector...
The government of Indian Punjab is revamping cotton cultivation to at least half the acreage it once boasted before 2019. This at a time when India’s cotton prices to the major market of the United States are low amid uptick exports. According to Punjab’s agriculture minister Gurmet Singh Khudian on April 19, 2025, the 2025-26 target is 125,000...
As Ethiopia navigates a possible 10% tariff by its biggest coffee market, the United States, value addition in the country is improving. According to the Ethiopian Herald, foreign investors have pooled $10 million since 2022 towards export value addition. The investments could expand the marginal export share of value added coffee, currently at 1% of the...