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This report contains FAS Kyiv’s revised production forecasts for MY2019/20 as well as trade estimates for MY2018/19.

Kenya is an emerging middle-income country and has one of the best performing economies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Philippine inflation continued to decline in 2019, mainly because of considerable food and feed grain imports.

The Government of Poland’s Main Statistical Office (MSO) published preliminary marketing year (MY) 2019/20 crop area estimates for grains.

Due to drought conditions, Zimbabwe’s corn crop for the 2019/20 MY is estimated to drop by 54 percent to 776,635 tons. In the 2018/19 MY Zimbabwe farmers produced 1.7 million tons of corn....

MY2019/20 corn production is revised down due to fall armyworm infestation.

No significant changes in the PSD for rice, wheat and corn to report.

Production of wheat in MY 2016/17 is forecast to decrease based on lower production area under this crop planted in Autumn 2015.

The Central Bank of Nigeria continues to restrict access to foreign exchange in an effort to reduce rapid spending of U.S. dollars outside of Nigeria.

Post estimates Vietnam’s wheat imports volume in the MY 2015/2016 at 2.60 million tons, an increase of about 300,000 tons compared to MY 2014/2015 imported volume.

Post expects marketing year (MY) 2015/16 Indonesian wheat imports to increase by 1.6 percent to 7.6 million metric tons (MMT), compared to 7.478 MMT in MY 2014/15.

Assuming average weather conditions during the growing season, FAS/Moscow forecasts Russia’s 2016 grain and pulses production at 101 million metric tons (MMT), a 2 percent decrease...