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- On 10 June 2020, an increase on import customs duties came into effect for a wide range of products, including food products. Among others, imports of [...]
- 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 [...]
- The Government of India has decided to end the levy rice procurement system from the forthcoming 2015/16 (October-September) marketing year. Currently, millers purchase paddy directly from [...]
- On 12 March, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) fixed the minimum support price of wheat, which was increased, in line with recommendations of the Wheat Review [...]
- The Government announced it will reduce import duties on rice to 10 percent from the current 25 percent. The measure aims to curb prices of rice, [...]
- In order to promote purchases of domestic stocks, import tariff-rate-quotas (TRQ) for 2015 will remain unchanged from the previous year at 9.64 million tonnes of wheat, [...]
- The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of India increased the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for 2017 Kharif crops, now being planted and to be harvested [...]
- Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the approval of a new formula for calculating grain export duties that is set to be introduced from July 2015. The [...]
- The Government of Indonesia has issued permits to import 50 000 cattle which is less than a fifth of the 279 000 cattle import permits that [...]
- In the Sahel belt, coarse grain prices increased further in May and reached levels above those a year earlier. Stronger domestic demand, ahead of the Ramadan [...]