The Food Contract Corporation, the national body managing the state grain reserves, announced the new procurement prices for 2016 grains on 8 September. The Corporation has announced different purchase price [...]

The Government approved a special loan package of USD 27 million to rice millers to buy rice paddy from farmers. The total includes USD 20 million from the government’s budget [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture and the milling industries have signed the agreement setting the procurement prices for the purchase of the 2016 cereal crops. The price for white maize, fit [...]

The Indonesian Trade Ministry set the reference prices for a number of basic food items, including rice, maize and soybeans on 9 September through a Ministerial Regulation. For each food [...]

The Government has auctioned on 15 September a 50 000 tonnes of maize from its state reserves. This follows a previous auction for a same volume on 23 August (FPMA [...]

The State Agency for Material Resources under the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) has increased the procurement price of high quality wheat from AZN 270 (USD 165) per tonne to [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has recently announced the procurement of 360 000 tonnes of rice for state-controlled rice reserves, plus 30 000 tonnes destined for food [...]

The National Food Supply Agency (CONAB) of Brazil put 35 000 tonnes of rice paddy to sale through two auctions on September 1 and sold nearly 50 percent of the [...]

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Government of Pakistan increased the regulatory duty on wheat imports from 40 percent to 60 percent. The duty was already increased in June [...]

The Government has issued the Executive Order No. 80; effective as of August 25, which extends Executive Order No. 70 of June 2015 on the suspension of the import tariff [...]