The first press review for raw materials in agri food industry
The Florida all orange forecast released today by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board is decreased 400,000 boxes to 157.6 million. If attained, this forecast will be 7% less than harvested in the 2007-08 season.
With soaring unemployment and a private sector still in troubled infancy, for the last few decades, government has provided the bulk of Kashmir’s jobs. Yet today this may be changing; on the heels of much-needed infrastructure development and…
El 70% de la producción nacional tiene como destino el mercado externo. En 2008 se pagó u$s1.700 la tonelada. Actualmente el valor FOB ronda los u$s750. Desde el sector señalan que la situación es de total incertidumbre.
Mozambican cashew nut processing factory, Macia Castanha Moçambique (MCM), located in Macia, in Mozambique’s Gaza province, expects this year to process 1,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, the factory’s owner said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced more recalls involving possible contaminated pistachios produced by Setton Farms Inc. The California company last week expanded its nationwide recall of roasted shelled and in-shell pistachios…
Michigan grows a third of all U.S. blueberries, but an increase in global production and South American imports are threatening to drive prices down sharply for this year’s crop. About 150 million tons of blueberries are now in storage nationwide,…
Vietnam’s coffee production for the 2009-10 crop year could be affected by the unseasonal rains, but it’s too early to predict the extent of the damage this far from harvest, traders said Thursday. “The early rains have some impact on the crops…
Exporters continue focusing to sell current crop for nearby shipments. However most of the demand is concentrated on new crop qualities for forward shipments. One of the largest roasters succeeded to obtain (MTGB GC Quality)…
California walnut brokers and growers, struggling to market a record-shattering 2008 harvest – nearly 160 million pounds of nuts more than the previous record – got a boost Tuesday from the federal school lunch program.
China is expected to dominate world markets in 2009 by producing 28.5 million tonnes of apples, says Desmond O’Rourke, Publisher, World Apple Report. Put into context, that’s seven times what the country produced in 1990.