Browse Data and Analysis

Monthly report on crop acreage, yield and production in major countries worldwide. Sources include reporting from FAS’s worldwide offices, official statistics of foreign governments....

This monthly report includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in cotton.

Post has revised its India cotton area estimate to 13.3 million hectares, making it the highest cotton area in the country’s history.

Though the history of hemp production is long, the modern industry dates back only nine years, but in this short time China has become the largest producer of hemp fiber in the world....

The first planting of Bt. Cotton for commercialization in Kenya is planned for the start of the long rains season, which is expected in March or April 2020.

On February 6, 2020, the State Council Tariff Commission announced that China would cut in half the additional tariffs for certain commodities from the United States on February 14, 2020.

Agricultural trade with Taiwan is being impacted by new quarantine measures, port closures, vessel delays, and suspended flights as U.S. agribusiness exporters struggle to find available space....

Bangladesh is a role model of acceptance and advancement of modern agricultural biotechnology.

Peru's 10-year moratorium on genetically engineered (GE) crops and zero tolerance for GE events is scheduled to expire in 2021.

The Philippines continues to be a regional biotechnology leader.

South Africa has a robust and experienced regulatory system for genetically engineered (GE) products which started with the publication of its “GMO” act in 1997.

Ethiopian farmers and researchers have tried to address food security shortfalls and plant health issues through conventional breeding without success.