The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s proposal to reduce fruit sugar content in pasteurized juices has garnered praise in Florida. A Federal Register report, revised on August 14, 2025, proposes to bring pasteurized orange juice sweetness from 10.5º to 10º Brix. The change will mandate processors to feature 17 grams (g) of sugar derived from oranges in each 8-oz measure, down from...
Tiandong and Guzhang escalate China’s summer specialty fruit exports
Summer mangoes and kiwi fruit from Guzhang county in east-central China and Tiandong in the south are rapidly filling regional export markets. As of August 15, 2025, Tiandong in the autonomous Guangxi region of south China was packing mango goodies to Russia. The key export product is mango-aroma ice pops by the Tiandong Yisheng Import & Export Trade company. Despite...
Global rubber prices slide amid trade chess of many stakes
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 Asia nation imported 30,000 tonnes...
Uganda reaps rewards of pricey cocoa, creates room for processing
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 billion shillings ($73 million). Niche...
The New Zealand rock lobster catch limits about to reduce?
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 fishery from commercial to native...
Wheat in Australia falters in pricing from foreign surpluses
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 improved the 2025-26 national production...
Grain canola at war after China’s 75.6% temporary tariffs on Canada
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 Canada. Beijing justifies cites a...
Nigeria sugars down import bill with 400,000-tonne production deal
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 roadmap – and now this latest...
The Egypt sweet potato marketing season starts with weekly lead
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 shipments at 7,000 tonnes. Following...
Cotton markets in Pakistan diversify weekly prices by nearly $2
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 rupees ($56.16-57.54). Karachi capped the spot...