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Production for marketing year (MY) 2015/2016 is forecast to be down for wheat, sorghum and rice while the corn production forecast remains unchanged.

2015/2016 wheat production is estimated at 5.6 million metric tons (mmt), but consumption is down slightly due to higher prices.

Post concurs with the USDA Official wheat estimates. Typhoon Koppu passed through the Philippines in October 2015 resulting in flooding of grain areas in Luzon.

Post lowers its MY2014/15 Indonesian rice production estimate to 35.56 MMT from the previous estimate of 35.76 MMT milled rice equivalent...

China is the second largest market for planting seeds after the United States. It is self-sufficient in planting seeds for grains, but imports some grass, vegetable, and fruit seeds.

According to the Bank of Guatemala (BANGUAT), the food processing industry in Guatemala for year 2015, will grow 3.5 percent and will contribute 0.67 percent to the total GDP.

In 2008, El Salvador abolished the Planting Seed Law that required imported seeds to have a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the seeds did not contain GMOs.

Since January 2014, the Burkinabe National Biosafety Agency (NBA) has been converting the status of the organization to a technical and scientific public institution (EPSET) for greater autonomy.

From October 2013 – June 2014, Taiwan imported over 1,600 thousand metric tons (TMT) of U.S. corn, exceeding Post estimates.

Following a near six month regulatory review, the Vietnam Minister of Agriculture signed the first four Certificates for Food and Feed Safety for four genetically modified corn traits.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the local production and milling industry once again came to an agreement on grain export management for the new marketing year.

FAS/Moscow increased the previous Russia total grain crop forecast for MY 2014/15 by 5 million metric tons (MMT) to 99 MMT.