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This report is an update to the previous forecast. Notable changes for MY 2015/16 include an increase in Korean wheat production to 36,000 MT and increased wheat consumption to 3.85 million tons.

Overall feed production in Japan continues to be stable, but is gradually trending down and is expected to be below 24 million metric tons in MY2014/15.

There is currently no production of agricultural biotechnology in Angola, and GE imports are limited to food aid.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) published Circular 50/2014/TTBNNPTNT on December 24, 2014, revising some articles of MARD’s Circular 66/2011/TTBNNPTTNT...

FAS/Astana forecasts Kazakhstan’s wheat production in 2015/16 at 12.8 MMT only slightly less than the levels estimated for 2014/15 on the background of heavy rains in May...

On June 29, 2015, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development released Decision 2515/QD-BNN-BVTV promulgating the List of Harmonized System codes for regulated articles subject to plant quarantine.

Dry weather with high temperatures resulted in slightly earlier start of grains and rapeseed harvest.

FAS/Moscow increased its April 2015’s grain production forecast by 5 million metric tons (MMT) to 97 MMT.

The Ministry of Agriculture foresees a rise in production in the current crop year despite some unfavorable weather conditions.

This report supplements the EU-28 Agricultural Biotechnology Annual 2014 report with information about the new regulation that allows each EU Member State to “opt-out” of GE crop cultivation...

In the European Union, governments, the media, non-governmental organizations, consumers, and industry associations remain conflicted about the use of agricultural biotechnology.

After a five-year moratorium on genetically modified organisms (“GMOs”) that was imposed with the 2004 Food Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) adopted the Law on Genetically Modified Organisms in 2009.