Industry in Italy: groceries soar with +16.7 percent driven by exports

Industry in Italy: groceries soar with +16.7 percent driven by exports

Against the trend, foodstuffs are soaring, with a +16.7 percent jump in turnover compared to last year, thanks mainly to the demand from abroad for food and beverages from Italy, which set an all-time record with an increase of 18 percent in January, driven by products that symbolize the Mediterranean Diet such as wine, pasta and fresh fruit and vegetables. These...

Vietnam trees: Relocating and cultivating more than 1,300 trees to make An Phu intersection

Vietnam trees: Relocating and cultivating more than 1,300 trees to make An Phu intersection

Authorities said that more than 1,300 Vietnamese trees on Mai Chi Tho Street, Thu Duc City will be uprooted and relocated for the construction of An Phu intersection. The investor promises to replant many trees and increase the green space to compensate. Accordingly, nearly 1,100 trees were relocated and more than 200 trees were cut down. These trees belong to the varieties...

Iranian wheat

Iran Wheat: forecast for the production of 13.2 million tons of wheat this year

  Thanks to the increase in domestic production, wheat imports in Iran have decreased by 2 million and 400 thousand tons in the eleven months of the previous year.   Recently, the Office of Foreign Agricultural Services of the United States, affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture of this country in its latest report called “Grains; Markets and World Trade” has predicted that Iran’s...

Malaysia: Erratic weather affects Vegetable prices, Fish prices

Malaysia: Erratic weather affects Vegetable prices, Fish prices

Kuala Lumpur: The Persekutuan Agricultural Marketing Agency (FAMA) found that vegetable prices in Malaysia in the Cameron Highlands are now erratic due to current production and demand factors. FAMA Pahang director Saiful Sadri said there are about 23 types of leaf, fruit and yam vegetables produced by farmers in Cameron Highlands with local and Singapore markets. He said, there are...

Brazilian coffee production is expected to grow below expectations, says Rabobank

Brazilian coffee production is expected to grow below expectations, says Rabobank

Rabobank reduced its projection of the Brazilian coffee production of the 2023/2024 harvest by 1.1 million bags, according to the AgroInfo bulletin, released on Friday (31st). With this, the bank’s new estimate is that the country will harvest 66 million bags of grain. “Despite the good recovery in the regions of Mogiana Paulista and Cerrado Mineiro, the high rate of fruit abortion...

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...