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Vietnam maintains strong demand growth for oilseeds for food and oil consumption.

Rice export prices remain unchanged as traders are waiting for MY2019/20 main crop white rice supplies which will enter the market in the next couple of weeks.

Brazil’s Marketing Year (MY) 2019/20 sugarcane crush has been revised upward to 635 million metric tons (mmt) due to favorable weather conditions in the Center-south and the Northeastern....

For Marketing Year October 2019 / September 2020 (MY 2019/20), Post forecasts overall production to increase to 565,000 metric tons (MT) due to favorable weather conditions.

As a result of another dry growing season in 2019, European Union (EU) sugar production for marketing year (MY) 2019/20 is now forecast at 17.9 million metric tons (MT) in raw sugar equivalent (RSE).

Precipitation in some sugar cane planted areas has not been beneficial for production for MY 2019/20, as drought that began in June has continued to affect a number of important sugar producing....

Total raw sugar production in MY 2019/20 (December/November) will reach 2.1 million metric tons (MMT), unchanged from the previous year, with cane production expected to be about 22 MMT.

On September 19, 2019, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) released the updated, "Food Hygiene Handling Procedures for Food and Additives Derived from Genome Editing Technology."

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare announced an additional public comment period for the, "Food Hygiene Handling Procedures for Food and Additives Derived from Genome Editing Technology."

On September 20, 2019, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries started the public comment period for Feed Safety Guidelines on the Handling of Genome-edited Feeds and Feed Additives.

2019/20 soybean planted area is forecast at 18 million hectares, up 0.2 million hectares as producers shift second season plantings from corn to soybeans.

Post forecasts soybean planted area at 36.5 million hectares in 2019/20, up negligibly on the 36.2 million hectares sown for the past crop.