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The Government of Pakistan has announced a seed cotton support price of 34 cents per pound for the upcoming harvest, a significant increase over the prevailing farm price of 26 cents per pound.

In 2013, Japanese potato production decreased by 3.5 percent to 2.41 million metric tons.

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Trip report for Post visit to Taiwan’s tea producing region. Review of tea and organic production in Taiwan.

Australian sugar production is projected to grow to 4.6 million tonnes in 2014-15 with sugar cane acreage up slightly.

MY2014/15 sugar production in Thailand is revised down to 10.2 million metric tons due to drought- reduced sugarcane production and a lower extraction rate.

This report provides a partial list of consultants available for conducting market research and other inquiries into Indian agriculture.

Despite improved planting, Post continues to forecast MY 2014/15 rice production at 100 MMT on expected lower yields due to patchy 2014 monsoon rains.

The Brazilian MY 2014/15 sugarcane crop is estimated at 619 mmt, down 5 mmt from MY 2013/14, mainly due to weather related problems in the center-southern producing region.

Turkey produced 2.39 million metric tons (MMT) of sugar in marketing year (MY) 2013/14 from a harvested area of 280,000 hectares.

EU sugar production for food in MY 2014/15 is forecast at 16.3 million MT, up from 16.0 million MT in MY 2013/14, but down from 16.6 million MT in MY 2012/13.

Export prices declined around 1 percent due to the sales of government stocks. The result of the second public tender has been finalized and new tenders will be exclusively for exporters.