The first press review for raw materials in agri food industry
Indonesia has the second largest area of coffee plantations in the world but due to low yields it only ends up as the fifth largest producer after Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, and India, a researcher said. Surip Mawardi,…
ICE frozen concentrated orange juice futures closed sharply higher Monday as a large speculative buyer moved in to take the market raging more than 900 points higher on the day. September FCOJ settled 680 points higher at 86.25 cents per pound.
The Association’s Board of Directors has ratified a 2009 price agreement with Del Monte Foods at their June 24, 2009 Board meeting. The $318/ton Base Price represents a 0.9% decrease from last year’s price of $321/ton.
Tomato production in Mexico for MY 2009/10 (Oct/Sep) is forecast to reach 2.27 million metric tons (MMT). MY 2008/09 production estimate is forecast at 2.23 MMT due to unfavorable weather conditions during the winter growing season.
Following decreased sales to India, Burma’s bean and pulse exports in May declined sharply by 65 percent from the same period of 2008 to 74,501 tons. Toor Whole (Pigeon pea) accounted for 45 percent of the total exports in May,…
Coffee exporters in Vietnam, the world’s top robusta producer, should avoid signing contracts now for the next 2009/2010 crop due to current low prices and production uncertainties, an industry official said today.
Traders in the modern commodity exchange system need to strictly abide by the laws of trading system in the country so as to transform the traditional trading system to modern one, ECEA said. Coffee worth more than two billion birr ($175 million)…
Excellent growing conditions have set in motion what should be an outstanding production year, domestic pistachio grower-shippers said. The crop is forecast to exceed 425 million pounds, a whopping jump of 63% over last year’s 260 million pounds,…
According to the Polish Analytical Centre of Customs Administration (CAAC) in the period between January and April 2009 Poland exported 32 thousand t of frozen strawberries i.e. by 35 % more than in the same period 2008.
Indonesia’s coffee output is forecast to grow by about 3 percent to 689,000 tonnes in 2009, an agriculture ministry official said on Thursday, while exports were expected to be steady. Indonesia, the world’s second-biggest robusta producer,….
World coffee exports amounted to 8.16 million bags in May 2009, compared with 8.15 million in May 2008. Exports in the first 8 months of coffee year 2008/09 (Oct/08 to May/09) have increased by 3% to 65.69 million bags compared to 63.77 million bags…
ICE frozen concentrated orange juice futures closed lower Thursday after the most-active September contract failed to cross the 80-cent per pound level. September FCOJ settled down 50 points at 79.45 cents.
TMO has announced in the beginning of the week that they will stop mid August selling the 2008, and won’t act anymore on the market till beginning 2010. This attitude is logical: the government cannot buy the 2009 crop….
With the 2009 pistachio harvest little more than two months away, pistachio growers and processors are anticipating a promising crop year with production expected to exceed 2008 levels. Growing conditions have been excellent and…
Honduran coffee exports have not been affected in any way after the coup that ousted leftist president Manuel Zelaya, the head of the country’s coffee institute said on Tuesday. Marcial Flores said in an interview that shipments were “normal”…
India’s coffee exports fell 21 percent in the first six months of 2009 as rising domestic prices and the global economic slowdown kept buyers away, an official from the Coffee Board said on Tuesday.Total exports were 104,013 MT…