Supermarkets in Taiwan reported NT$165.4bln (US$5.36bln) in combined revenue for the first nine months of the year at 2,201 stores, both numbers being records, a report released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs showed.
There are two sides to the potato market this year - the produce is lacking and there is the risk of only finding low-quality potatoes on the market as the best produce is being kept in warehouses hoping for the situation to improve.
The world’s largest wheat exporter has already exported more than 22 million tonnes of grain since the start of the season, from the 38-39 million tonnes that Russia’s agriculture ministry estimates to be available in the 2018/19 season.
Exports are a demand-pull phenomenon, and demand has been good. U.S. milk equivalent exports from January to July were record high, up 19.5% from 2017.
Swisse China Holdings Limited, a well-known Australian health product brand, plans to introduce its milk powder brand Biostime into Australia's infant formula market to compete positively with Bellamy's and A2.
The price of bananas on the domestic market has recently been on the rise. Bananas from Brazil already sell for more than 4 yuan [0.58 USD] per 0.5 kg in Dalian markets.
For the first time, direct custom clearance of air cargo has been initiated from LGBI (Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi) Airport, with a consignment of vegetables exported on Sunday.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Sagarpa) held a working meeting with entrepreneurs from the People's Republic of China and vegetable producers in the country.
In the summer season Willem Bakker of the French branch of BioTropic in Perpignan mainly sells Dutch organic vegetables and fruit on the French market, but in the winter the situation is reversed.
