As of 23 March 2016, the Government of Sri Lanka has temporarily reduced tax concessions on wheat flour imports, with the aim to encourage local rice consumption. Demand for imported [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation has announced that the minimum prices for 2016 wheat crop purchases by the State Intervention Fund for its restocking programme in the [...]

As of 25 March, the Nigerian Customs Service has re-introduced the policy to restrict rice imports through land borders across the country. A full ban on all rice imports into [...]

The import duty on wheat, which was scheduled to end on 31 March, has been extended until 30 June 2016. The Government had initially imposed a 10 percent duty on [...]

As of 15 January, the Government of Azerbaijan has exempted wheat, flour and bread from value added tax. The measure aims to reduce prices of these commodities that are supported [...]

The Government of Brazil announced in Late January that it will auction 500 000 tonnes of maize from its state reserves. The measure aims to boost supplies in the market [...]

On 1 February, the Government of Sri Lanka raised the import duty on rice by 43 percent from LKR 35 per kilogram (USD 234 per tonnes) to LKR 50 per [...]

On February 1, the Government of Argentina removed the subsidies on electricity and raised prices to reduce fiscal expenditures and encourage investment in the energy sector. In Argentina, the federal [...]

Effective from January 1, 2016 Morocco lowered the customs duty on soft wheat imports from 50 percent to 30 percent. This latest decrease follows a previous reduction of the import [...]

On 13 January the Government of India approved a new crop insurance scheme, named ‘’Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’’ (PMFBY), which will replace the previous scheme, with better conditions for [...]