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Like many farmers in Maringa, a municipality in southern Brazil, Manoel Marques has decided to expand his soybean planting from 6,800 to 7,100 hectares for the 2018-2019 season, as China is increasing its soybean imports from the Southern American country. About 8,500 km to the north, however, American farmer Don Lutz of Scandinavia, a town […]
Indonesian palm oil production is expected to hit 40 million tonnes in 2018, up from an earlier forecast of 38.5 million tonnes, industry analyst Dorab Mistry said on Friday. “The expansion of palm plantings in Indonesia has been much higher than expected,” said Mistry, according to a copy of his presentation at the Globoil industry […]
On September 20, at the start of a new oilseed season, major oilseed sector representatives already traditionally gathered in Kyiv, at Hilton Hotel, to participate in the VI International Conference “Black Sea Oil Trade-2018” organized by UkrAgroConsult. The general sponsor of the conference was the US company ST Equipment & Technology. Global transformations are underway […]
Antti Ritvonen In this interview with FEMI IBIROGBA, Chief Executive Officer / Country Manager of Dizengoff Nigeria, Mr. Antti Ritvonen, it turns out what government, farmers and politicians can do to restore Nigeria in its glory to be a leading producer and exporter of food. Read the excerpts: Nigeria was a leading food producer before […]
Kabir Ibrahim Competitive food production, youth involvement in agriculture, technology adoption and mobilization of resources in the agro-industrial industry were proposed as a means of stopping high bills for food imports and smuggling. The Presidents of the Birds Association of Nigeria (PAN), Ezekiel Ibrahim Mom and the Association of All Farmers of Nigeria (AFAN), Mr. […]
Feedlot operators have had a very strenuous spring and summer. Margins have been hovering in negative territory while feed barley prices have been percolating higher. Feeder cattle prices are actually higher than year-ago levels despite the strong feed grain prices and a year-over-year increase in the U.S. calf crop. The Canadian dollar has been trading […]
Brazil, the world’s No 1 soy exporter, is expected to import around 1 million tonnes of the oilseed in coming months from its largest global competitor, the United States, as local supplies dwindle, according to Sao Paulo-based grain trader Agribrasil. It would be the first time that the South American nation, an agricultural powerhouse, needs […]
As of September 25, 73.9 thousand tons of grain, 116.9 thousand tons of potatoes and 61.6 thousand tons of vegetables have been harvested in Mongolia. Grain harvesting is running at 15.1 percent, whilst harvesting for vegetables and potatoes is at 66.2-68.9 percent nationwide, Montsame reports. During the spring sowing 2018, 497.2 thousand hectares of areas […]
A Tunisian official blamed climate change to the detriment of the country's agricultural sector, an estimated $ 71.3 million. USA. The head of the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries, Abdel Majed Al-Saar, told reporters that compensation for damage increased by only 5 percent, or by $ 3.5 million. According to him, up to 18 […]
US rail transportation of grain products for the week ended September 22 totaled 23,297 cars, up 18.8% from the year-ago week, Association of American Railroads data showed Wednesday. Rail transportation of chemical products rose 3.6% year on year to 31,741 cars, the data showed. AAR designates fuel-grade ethanol as a chemical product. Cumulatively, grain product […]
An environmental organisation has welcomed Indonesia’s three year moratorium on new palm oil developments but says more needs to be done, with many already in operation in places like Papua province. Mighty Earth’s director for South East Asia Phil Aikman said while the presidential instruction carried some weight it was not legally binding and only […]
Depressed prices, higher production costs, contraband and increased competition for land from other more profitable crops has contributed to a decline in corn production in Guatemala, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA also noted in its report that Guatemala […]
Germany, in most years one of the EU’s largest grain exporters, is expected to become a net importer after a hot, dry summer damaged crops, said a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN). “The drought has heavily affected grain, rapeseed and forage production in Germany,” said the report. “As […]
The Senate is currently stepping up efforts to convert the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice into tariffs, a move that is expected to bring rice prices down and ease inflation. Economic managers have been banking on the scrapping of the rice quota to make rice more affordable, particularly to the poor, who spend at least […]
Agriculture expert Ismail Olawale urged local farmers to adopt a greenhouse farm to improve food security in the country. Olavale says that the benefits of agriculture are enormous. Greenhouse agriculture is an alternative method of farming, where plants are grown in environmentally controlled structures or buildings, which, in turn, leads to an increase in crop […]