The first press review for raw materials in agri food industry
Estimates of the 2009 Australian macadamia crop continue to fall as the full impact of severe weather conditions on both production and kernel recovery become clear.As at the end of July, some 30,300 tonnes nut in shell (NIS) has been received…
World coffee exports amounted to 7.75 million bags in July 2009, compared with 8.21 million bags in July 2008. However, exports in the first 10 months of coffee year 2008/09 (Oct/08 to Jul/09) have increased by 2.6% to 82.31 million bags…
Turkey continues to be one of the world’s major producers of fresh fruit and vegetables. Stone fruits account for 14 percent of fruit production in Turkey, the third most significant after deciduous and citrus fruits. Most stone fruit is consumed fresh in the domestic market.
Crude oil rose for a second day in New York and pared its weekly loss after the dollar weakened, spurring demand for commodities as a hedge against inflation. Oil also gained as Asian equities moved higher,…
Colombian coffee growers on Thursday elected the acting administrator of their industry federation as its new director to replace Gabriel Silva who left to become the country’s defense minister. Luis Genaro Munoz, who was interim director,…
India turmeric futures erased early gains to end steady on Wednesday on rainfall in key producing states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra and on forecast of more rains in next five days, analysts said.
To eradicate illegal hazelnut production, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture will fund those hazelnut farmers who will switch to other cultivation options such as cut flowers and blueberries. This initiative, in accordance with the recent…
A SMALLER than predicted macadamia crop for the second season in a row is starting to put upward pressure on prices at long last – final processor offerings for 2009 nuts are settling towards the $2 a kilogram mark, up 15 per cent on last year.
Federal researchers predict that the Massachusetts cranberry crop’s productivity this year will drop by nearly 20 percent from the record haul that local growers enjoyed in 2008. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said…
The international long-range meteorological consensus now is that the developing El Niño has established itself and may build into a medium-strength event ? probably bigger than the last (in 2006-2007) but possibly weaker than the last big one, in 1997-1998.
Economic hard times have punched Western agriculture squarely on the jaw. California’s stitched-up English walnut industry is among the agricultural sectors hoping for a return to profitability as the 2009-2010 harvest nears.
Some processing plants have already started the purchase of carrots. In the central part of Poland the purchase price of carrots for purée is about 0.30 PLN (0.07 euro)/kg. In wielkopolskie province plants producing dried vegetables…
In dolnoslaskie province the purchase price of plums for processing (variety Wegierka Lowicka) increased by 0.20 PLN (0.05 euro)/kg to 0.80 PLN (0.19 euro)/kg due to the lower supply of this variety. However the price probably won’t increase more…
Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, may buy less of the commodity than previously agreed, encouraging growers to boost stockpiles and marking a shift in the government’s strategy to aid farmers, an AgricultureMinistry official said.
A surge of optimism capping the 2008-09 citrus season lost momentum from a forecast suggesting Florida’s orange crop has not shrunk enough to boost farm prices. The widely anticipated forecast released by Elizabeth Steger of Citrus Consulting…
Chilean production of apricots, plums and peaches & nectarines in MY2009/2010 are expected to fall slightly when compared to the previous year due to alternate bearing effect and weather predictions that call for unusual rain during next spring…