The Indonesian Secretariat General of Agriculture, Syukur Iwantoro, hosted an official ceremony in Purwakarta, west Java, celebrating the export of 3,010 tons of mangosteens to China.
Speculators drastically ramped up their rate of selling in Chicago-traded corn, wheat and soybean futures during mid-February, though prices have skidded even further since then as the general market pessimism lingers into March.
As the seventh largest producer of potatoes in the world, Bangladesh is still struggling in offering potato growers a tangible solution to the yearly market glut.
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project will lay the foundation for a northern Australian rice sector with the potential to produce more than one million tonnes of specialty rice annually.
