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- Maize prices remained stable or strengthened seasonally in November and were generally below their levels a year earlier, as a result of adequate subregional availabilities. In [...]
- Reflecting increased supplies from last year’s above average regional harvest, coarse grain prices have remained mostly stable or continued to decline in recent months in both [...]
- The Government of Egypt has procured 750 000 tonnes of the 2015 wheat harvest since the current marketing season which began in mid-April. The Government has [...]
- The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria, AMBCON, an independent umbrella body for baking professionals, announced that the price of bread, biscuits and other [...]
- On 14 October, the Government announced an indefinite ban on imports and exports of all goods through land borders nationwide. A partial closure of the borders [...]
- On 15 October, the Government began implementing the price guarantee scheme. Under the scheme, which will run from October this year to February 2020, if market [...]
- The Government of Thailand has decided to increase the lending budget of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to around 34.8 billion baht (or [...]
- On the 10th of May 2015, the Government of Bangladesh imposed a 10 percent duty on import of rice as a measure to curb the decline [...]
- Bulog, the state procurement agency of Indonesia, announced its intention to purchase 3.2 million tonnes of rice from domestic farmers in 2015, unchanged from the previous [...]