The Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA) plans to begin sales of maize from its reserves to millers with immediate effect to control escalating prices. Maize is a staple food in [...]

The newly elected Government of Argentina plans to remove the 23 percent export tax on maize, the 20 percent tax on wheat and reduce the tax on soybean exports from [...]

The Government of Egypt plans to implement a new wheat procurement system from April next year in time for the 2016 season harvest. The new measure aims to encourage domestic [...]

The Government of Bangladesh is planning to increase the import duty on rice to encourage the consumption of the large stocks in the country and to protect producer prices. The [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture of India increased on 5 November the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for 2016 winter - Rabi - crops, currently being planted and to be harvested from [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation has revised upwards the minimum prices for 2015 wheat crop purchases by the State Intervention Fund. Purchasing at the new higher prices [...]

As of 19 October, the Government of India has raised the import duty on wheat from 10 to 25 percent. The measure aims to protect the domestic wheat market, and [...]

Cote D’Ivoire has set the minimum farm-gate price for a kilogram of cocoa at 1 000 CFA (USD 1.70). The measure aims at supporting farmers by setting a guaranteed price [...]

As of the end of September, the Sudan removed the special subsidized USD/Sudanese pound exchange rate that was previously available for importation of wheat. The special exchange rate was set [...]

Egypt has removed its ban on rice exports, replacing it instead with an export tariff of 2 000 Egyptian pounds (USD 255.43) per tonne. The tariff that has been introduced [...]