The Indonesian Food and Beverage Association (Gapmmi) sees sales in 2014 rising 11 percent to 1,000 trillion rupiah ($85.40 billion) from 900 trillion rupiah a year earlier, said Chairman Adhi S. Lukman.
Russia has allowed dairy supplies from three Turkish firms, its veterinary and phytosanitary service (VPSS) said, boosting imports after Moscow banned most foods from the European Union and the United States.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that California citrus farmers will be able to resume exports to China this season. California citrus exports are valued at $30 million annually.
August Consumer Price Index in Ho Chi Minh City increased 0.05 percent against last month and 5.2 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.
In France, the average price of fruit fell this summer by 12 per cent, while the price of vegetables dropped by 3 per cent (compared to the summer period of last year).
India, the world's biggest sugar consumer, raised the import duty on the sweetener to 25 percent from 15 percent as part of efforts to help regional mills struggling with lower prices and higher stocks.
In the escalating dispute between Russia and the West over Ukraine, a group of businessmen with Kremlin connections are emerging as likely beneficiaries of the tit-for-tat sanctions.
During last week’s PMA Fresh Connections Southern Africa, Joburg market, was presented to the audience attending Woman’s Fresh Perspectives Breakfast, they also sponsored the breakfast.
Russia said on Thursday it was investigating dozens of McDonald's (MCD.N) restaurants, in what many businessmen said was retaliation for Western sanctions over Ukraine they fear could spread to other symbols of Western capitalism.
A "significant" amount of produce out at sea needs to be returned to its original senders after Russia imposed a ban on food imports from Western countries, a unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk said in a regular newsletter to shippers.
Belarus, aiming to boost food exports to neighbouring Russia, has cancelled a ban on live cattle from the European Union, Yuri Pivovarchuk, the head of veterinary surveillance at Belarussian agriculture ministry, said.
Russia's government has eased some self-imposed bans on Western food, allowing imports of material that could be used to boost its own agricultural industry and softening the costs on some firms in neighbour Finland.
The possibility of an interest rate rise in the UK this year has become more remote after figures were published revealing that the rate of inflation dropped in July to a greater extent than had been anticipated.
As crowds of people make their way through the twisting aisles of one of Mexico City’s largest street markets on a Sunday morning, customers fight for room to peruse everything from blenders to mobile phones to jeans.
Team Niinivirta, a Finnish family-run transportation firm, turned 60 this year, but its third-generation managers now don't know if the business will see Christmas, because of Russia's new ban on European food imports.
Wheat fell in Chicago as traders weighed the potential impact of tension between Ukraine and Russia on grain exports from the Black Sea region as officials held talks in Berlin on resolving the crisis. Corn rose.
