The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe sued the government for setting grain and soy purchase prices because it says the state policy will cause starvation.
Kuwait Food Co (Americana) said on Monday that it had no knowledge of any talks with Saudi Arabia's Savola Group on a possible acquisition of Americana.
EU fruit and vegetable growers will get financial aid of up to 125 million euros ($167 million) to help them cope with Russia's ban on most Western food imports
Russia will allow imports from neighbouring Belarus and Kazakhstan of food processed from Western raw materials as Moscow seeks to damp down domestic food price rises triggered by its ban on food imports from the West.
Business is booming at Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl, Thailand's biggest meat and animal feed producer, especially now it has won orders for chicken products from McDonald's Holding Co after a food scare in China.
India has signed memorandums of understanding(MoUs) and agreements in agriculture and allied sectors with 52 countries, in a bid to strengthen its reach in agriculture across the globe.
US FOB Gulf soyabean basis offers eased slightly from lofty levels late Friday, while wheat values were softer after futures rallied on heightened political tensions between Russia and the Ukraine, traders said.
Spot soyabean basis bids jumped at processors around the US Midwest again on Friday amid an effort to secure crushing supplies until the fall harvest begins, dealers said.
Market Basket Inc., the New England supermarket chain whose family owners are battling each other for control, has received interest from as many as dozen possible buyers, a representative for the company’s board said.
Supervalu Inc said it is investigating a potential data breach that could have affected some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor stores.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up emergency food deliveries to the West African region battling an Ebola outbreak and delivering supplies by truck, a WFP official said on Friday.
People from Britain who go to Cyprus in August are usually after sun, sea and sand but one Lincolnshire man, a trader in fruit and vegetables, is heading there this week for the potatoes.
The Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Mauro Borges, said that Brazil intends sign the free trade agreement with Colombia, Chile and Peru, originally scheduled for 2019, in 2016.
The agri-food import sanctions against EU countries, which were recently announced by the Russian Government, will obviously impact on the European food and drink processing industry.
Six international suppliers are likely to bid for state contracts to ship up to 500,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines in a tender later this month, the country's grains procurement agency said on Monday.
