Global food prices rose slightly in December after staying flat the month before, but prices on average declined 1.6 percent in 2013 versus the previous year, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.
Norway is working to end a limited Russian boycott of Norwegian fish exports that took effect Jan. 1, Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker said this week.
A new report shows fish supplies in the European Union have fallen to their lowest levels since 2006, with imports doing an about-face in 2012 from growth the previous year.
Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
The Victorian Government has announced it will contribute to vegetable processor Kagome Australia’s $21 million expansion plans that will create 20 new jobs in northern Victoria.
The value of Irish food and drink exports in 2013 reached 10 billion euros (13.6 billion U.S. dollars) for the first time, up 9 percent from the previous year, according to official figures on Wednesday.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture will not buy food quality wheat via a regular tender this week, but plans to conduct tenders over the following three weeks in January, an official at the bureau said on Wednesday.
Rises in grain and oilseed prices over the last two sessions went against the common idea that they are due a further fall in 2014, as world stocks rebuild further.
Soybean imports have increased drastically in recent years to make up for the shortfall in domestic production and meet the ever-growing demand of the domestic market.
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities rose slightly in the week ending Jan 5 compared with the previous week, according to Ministry of Commerce statistics on Tuesday.
China’s first green channel for agricultural products, connecting China’s Bakty port and Kazakhstan’s Baktu port, opened on December 23, and is expected to simplify agriculture commodities’ clearance procedures.
Turkish fruit exports rose 16 percent from 2012 to 2013, reaching $708.5 million, according to the Turkey Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (TYMSIB).
Almost half of customers at chicken fast food outlet Nando’s in Australia are from Generation Y (Gen Y), compared with only around 3 in 10 at McDonald’s, according to findings from market research organisation Roy Moran Research.
War-torn Syria's state wheat import deals surged to 2.4 million tonnes in 2013 from 550,000 a year earlier, the country's General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob) said on Monday.
Net export sales of U.S. corn in the week ended Dec. 26 tumbled 90% from a week earlier, 80% from the prior four-week average and fell well short of trade expectations.
