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China’s sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2017/18 is forecast to expand as high prices and favorable returns are encouraging farmers to plant more sugar cane and sugar beets.

MY 2016/17 sugarcane tonnage grew as a result of La Nina conditions, although sucrose yields fell due to flowering.

On April 4, 2017, India notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a draft regulation related to ready-to-drink infant milk substitute.

Post estimates Vietnam’s wheat imported volume for MY 2016/2017 at 4.5 million tons due to expected increase in the use of both milling and feed wheat.

Rice production for MY 2017/18 (May-April) is forecast at 34.7 MMT on higher yields. Wheat production for MY 2017/18 (July-June) is forecast at 1.3 MMT on higher planted area....

On March 29, 2017, the Russian Federation notified to the WTO via G/SPS/N/RUS/111/Add.1 that “The Common Rules and Standards to Ensure Plant Quarantine....

India’s centrifugal sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2017/18 (Oct-Sept) is expected to increase by 18 percent to 25.8 million metric tons (MMT).

The Latvian economy is expected to steadily grow over the next few years. In 2015 total Latvian agricultural imports amounted to U.S. $2.7 billion....

In MY2017/18 wheat imports are forecast to reach 1.3 MMT. Barley consumption is expected to decrease by eight percent to 845 TMT, as ranchers reduce their herds due to a slowdown in demand....

GOR Approved Amendments to the State Program “On Agricultural Development”… Minister of Agriculture Tkachyov Discusses the Results in Agriculture in 2016 and Priorities....

Sugar production and exports are projected to increase in marketing year 2017/2018, up from the previous year.

For Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal, MY 2016/17 (October 2016 to September 2017) total rice production (for all four countries) is estimated to fall 3.7 percent....