The first press review for raw materials in agri food industry
U.S. organic product sales continued to grow last year despite the adverse affects of the recession on consumer spending, growing 5.3% to $26.6 billion, according to the 2010 Organic Industry Survey conducted by…
Vietnam plans a major boost to its cocoa industry, aiming for annual output of 108,000 tonnes of the commodity by 2015, a state-run newspaper reported on Thursday. The Agriculture Ministry has asked experts to draw up a plan…
Cocoa exports from world No. 5 grower Cameroon are running 3.6 percent below last year, according to official data released on Wednesday.Exports hit 159,773 tonnes by the end of April since the season started in August, down from 165,686 T…
Food security. Sounds boring, eh? It’s not something talked about very often, but the fact is America’s rising population is creating no small amount of peril in the food-supply chain. Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate as farms…
Selon le ministère de l’Agriculture et du Développement rural, 7.000 tonnes de thé ont été exportées au mois de mars. Le total au premier trimestre de l’année s’élevait à 24.000 tonnes. Le thé continue d’être un produit apprécié de l’économie…
As consumers’ preference for organic products grows steadily worldwide, India is targeting exports of over $1 billion of such products in the next five years, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said Saturday.
Cette chronique des matières premières est consacrée au café-cacao en Côte d’Ivoire. Une filière en passe de connaître une mutation de taille, une de plus après les bouleversements de 1999 et 2000. Simple lifting ou nouveau big-bang ?
Cargill officially opened a new cocoa buying station located at National Road 14, Minh Hung Commune, Bu Dang, Binh Phuoc province. This is the third buying station the company established in Vietnam’s cocoa growing areas to provide…
Falling from a 17 months high crude oil has dropped after a government report showed higher than forecasted increase in U.S. inventories and an unexpected rise in gasoline stocks. Oil fell for the first time in four days after exposure to the U.S…
Organic farming in Turkey is still a niche business, worth just 150 million dollars compared to a global turnover of 46 billion dollars. But investments are being made both domestically and abroad. According to data provided by the University…
Cocoa in New York fell the most in two weeks, ending a three-session rally, as speculative buying dwindled, the dollar rose and concerns mounted that the economic recovery may falter. Coffee declined.
There is growth, it seems, in growing organic produce. The organic agriculture sector swelled nearly 50 percent in 2009 to a total of 2,689 organic farms, according to the industry research organization Bioinstitut.
Industry moves to process more cocoa beans in Africa are being held back by local obstacles and weak global demand, but grinders are pursuing the strategy in the belief it will yield rich dividends once markets recover.
According to the first estimations of the BIO Agency, 3 600 new producers undertook in the organic farming in 2009, that is 300 producers of more on average every month. The number of organic producers increased of 23 % between…
Sara Lee announced on February 23rd that it has sourced the first sustainable tea approved by its partner US CERTIFIED. Sara Lee already sells UTS CERTIFIED coffee, having recently announced plans to source 40,000 tons of of sustainable…
On the heels of a busy 2009, sustainability certification program Utz Certified is poised to make further moves in the tea industry in 2010. Utz Certified, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, describes itself as “a sustainable agriculture program…