The East African Community (EAC), comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, increased the import tariff of rice - Common External Tariff (CET)- from 10% to 35%, in an attempt [...]

The government has restricted meat export permits to guarantee local supply and put downward pressure on the retail prices, following the devaluation of the national currency in January. From the [...]

In mid-February 2014, the Government of Thailand released 687 623 tonnes of rice stocks from the 2012 and 2013 crops for both export and domestic sales. The Government is periodically [...]

On 19 December 2013, ONICL, the state grains agency, introduced an import subsidy system, to be effective from 1 January until 30 April 2014, in an effort to ensure adequate [...]

The Secretary of Agricultureof Mexico announced the re-introduction of a 20 percent import tariff on white maize (yellow maize is exempted), which was abolished in 2008. A 15 percent import [...]

The Government raised by 3.7 percent the minimum support wheat price to be paid to farmers to Rs 1,400 a quintal (USD 22.6) in the 2014/15 marketing year (April/March). This [...]