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Biotech regulations have been virtually non-existent in the Caribbean. However, that may change in the years ahead....

Post forecasts Polish swine inventories to increase by 3 percent in 2017 due to the favorable farmgate prices and reduced feed costs.

Poland currently opposes of the use of genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture and Polish law prohibits the cultivation of GE crops.

2017 milk production in Poland will increase by 5 percent over 2016 because of higher farm-gate prices and favorable feed supplies.

A shifting political landscape in the EU has led to fears that voting “against” import authorization of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops is becoming perilously close to a new norm.

Poland’s production of wheat, rye, mixed grains and triticale, barley, corn, and oats in MY 2017/18 is forecast to reach 31.9 million metric tons (MMT), a 7.5 percent increase over MY 2016/17.

Polish stone fruit yields will decline due to late-spring frost damage.

Updated import duties of Euro 5.16 per metric ton are applied on corn, sorghum and rye from August 8, 2017.

The EU28 grain harvest is now under way in most Member States.

On July 21, 2017, Poland’s Veterinary Service declared Poland as free of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) following three months with no HPAI detections.

On February 2, 2017, the European Commission launched a consultation on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to better understand where the current policy can be simplified....

Two studies conducted by Eastern European Members States (MS) have concluded that identically branded food products are being sold with lower quality in Eastern Europe than Western Europe.