Zimbabwe plans to import 150,000 tonnes of maize from its neighbour South Africa as it faces its worst food shortages in four years due to drought and a poor harvest last year, state media reported on Friday.
Thailand has high potential to export more products to the immense Chinese market next year when the Chinese economy should sustain growth of at least 8.4 per cent, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
Supplies of red meat and poultry in cold storage declined in November, but were slightly higher compared to 2012 levels, the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.
The United States and China have will continue to negotiate US beef exports to China, with the intention of restoring market access by the middle of 2014, the US Department of Agriculture reported.
Chapare banana producers have denounced through Fides TV and Radio that the Argentine government has imposed measures to restrict the importation of its products into the country, threatening Bolivian production.
Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce has announced that Australian table grape producers should soon be able to export to the Korean market following the finalisation of associated trade conditions.
Spain is the first country to announce that beginning December twenty-first it will reject imports of fishery products from Belize, Cambodia and Guinea Conakry in compliance with the legal measures imposed by the EC.
Fruit and vegetable imports from China to Vietnam slowed down in the second quarter of this year, following news of several food scandals unearthed in the country.
Sysco Corp will buy US Foods Inc for about $3.5 billion from its private equity owners in a deal that will combine the top two U.S. food distributors and create a company commanding at least a quarter of the $235 billion North American market.
Indonesia's state-owned plantation company PTPN VIII will export bananas to Singapore from 2014, said Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Dahlan Iskan on Friday.
British-Dutch multinational company Unilever is looking to cut its product portfolio by 30% by the end of 2014, in a move to become more efficient and reverse its global slowdown.
