The market value of lambs has been decreasing slightly in recent months in Portugal, reveals to “CA” António Lopes, president of the board of directors of the Grouping of Livestock Producers “Carnes do Campo Branco”, based in Castro Verde. According to him, “the market values [of lamb] have already been much better and, at this moment, they’ve even gone down”, despite the...

The bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and Thailand is projected to reach 25 billion USD in the near future. Vietnam’s export turnover to Thailand was reported to have reach 1.2 billion USD in the first 2 months of 2023. This is an increase of 12.4% over the same period in 2022. Despite being a major agricultural products supplier worldwide, Thailand...

A technical report reveals what has happened to the margins of breeding, full-cycling and wintering of cattle after the increases registered since the end of January and how they are in relation to the last ten years. It also shows in what proportion the increases were transferred to the counter. The increase in Argentina’s cattle prices recorded between the end of January and February...

President Yoon Seok-yeol on Thursday exercised his right of reconsideration (veto) on the amendment to the ‘Grain Management Act’. Due to the composition of the National Assembly, it is unlikely that the bill will be reconsidered. We can’t help but look back at the debate that has been going on since the 2021 Korean rice harvest season and wonder what we are...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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: 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...