Portugal Food Market: Government signs contracts with Euroteste and Consulai to track prices

Portugal Food Market: Government signs contracts with Euroteste and Consulai to track prices

Portugal: Contracts with Euroteste and Consulai, within the framework of the Price Observatory, to obtain information on consumer prices, as well as the methodology of analysis of the value chain, was announced today. “The Ministry of Agriculture and Food, through the Office of Planning, Policies and General Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture (GPP), signed the contracts that will allow the...

PSL: farmers in Poland demand government intervention on cereals

PSL: farmers in Poland demand government intervention on cereals

Farmers are demanding that the government introduce customs duties on Ukrainian grain, unblock channels for grain imports from Ukraine, and provide intervention in the purchase of grain, PSL politicians told a press conference on Tuesday. From this text you will learn: > What farmers expect from the Polish government > About the government’s plans for grain import policy from Ukraine PSL Deputy Speaker of...

Agricultural weather in Germany: Rain record brings relaxation for soils

Agricultural weather in Germany: Rain record brings relaxation for soils

April starts with changeable weather. Soil frost comes to sunshine. And rain, which gives farmers further buffers for the summer. The good news in advance: According to the German Weather Service, March 2023 was the wettest March in 20 years! no comparison to last year. This creates relaxation in Germany’s soils. However, this March was also quite mild; the vegetation started...

Thailand Cabbages: Planting green cabbage with a professional bringing profit of over 30,000 baht per rai

Thailand Cabbages: Planting green cabbage with a professional bringing profit of over 30,000 baht per rai

In addition to the northern region, Tha Muang District, Kanchanaburi Province in Thailand is considered a large cabbage planting area for many decades. Therefore, it is a large production source to enter the market of selling cabbages nationwide. With the wisdom of making pickled cabbage from generation to generation, pickled cabbage from this district is tasty and delicious and garners...

Indonesia Rice: On Maros visit, Jokowi hopes rice surplus will be distributed

Indonesia Rice: On Maros visit, Jokowi hopes rice surplus will be distributed

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inspected the rice harvest in Baji Pamai Village, Maros Kota Subdistrict, Maros Regency, South Sulawesi. This review is a series of government work in ensuring food availability in the upcoming fasting month and Eid al-Fitr in a safe position. There, the President also held a direct dialogue with farmers regarding productivity and the planting season. It is...

The national rice industry chain big data platform is launched in China

The national rice industry chain big data platform is launched in China

The 2023 China Seed Conference and Nanfan Silicon Valley Forum were held in Sanya, Hainan from April 1 to 4. At the Rice Industry Chain Development Forum on the 2nd, the National Rice Industry Chain Big Data Platform, the first rice industry chain big data application service platform in China, was officially launched. The national rice industry chain big data...

Recent trends in the prices of Ukraine vegetables

Recent trends in the prices of Ukraine vegetables

Will farmers increase the area of onions and carrots? Will the vegetable market collapse in the summer? The onion is still going strong. Its price went up recently. It is followed by carrots. Cabbage also decided to get into the top three. Two ingredients of borscht: potatoes and beets are lagging behind. Meanwhile, in the south, fields are being actively...

Italy’s Durum wheat, prices in dive (-30 euros / t.) in Foggia, Italy at End March: from the end of June lost a third of the value

Italy’s Durum wheat, prices in dive (-30 euros / t.) in Foggia, Italy at End March: from the end of June lost a third of the value

FOGGIA – Two weeks after the last quotations on March 15, the price of Italian durum wheat plummets at the Foggia Commodity Exchange, in the session of Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The drop was as much as 30 euros per ton. Compared to the end of June 2022, the price of durum wheat lost a third of its value, going from...

Germany Winter cereals: What does it look like in our fields?

Germany Winter cereals: What does it look like in our fields?

 It doesn’t really feel like spring yet. But a look at the agricultural land in the country shows that it is in the starting blocks. Agriculture doctor, Dr. Till Backhaus explains: In autumn 2022, the farms in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sowed winter rapeseed on 197,800 hectares of arable land for the upcoming 2023 harvest season. According to the Statistical Office, the sowing...

Italy’s Olive Oil and the new Automatic traceability in the olive-oil supply chain

Italy’s Olive Oil and the new Automatic traceability in the olive-oil supply chain

An example of technology to improve the sustainability and competitiveness of  Italy’s olive oil sector developed in a recent research project. Currently, Italy is the third country in the world, after Spain and Tunisia, for olive-growing area of 955,000 ha, but remains the second largest producer in the world with 4,250,192 q of oil (ISTAT, 2022). Our country holds the richest...