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On December 22, 2016, Japan’s Cabinet approved a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) proposal to permit soybean meal, coconut oil meal, rapeseed meal, cottonseed oil meal...

A locust attack in Santa Cruz devastated around 1,500 hectares of agricultural land.

Post forecasts India to produce 6.8 million metric tons (MMT) of rapeseed and mustard in marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (Oct-Sept), derived from 7.05 million hectares.

Ethiopia’s agriculture imports reached $1.8 billion in 2015. Future imports are expected to increase as the country’s economy and population continue to grow.

Soybean and peanut sowings were completed as of late January with nearly a third of the sunflower seed crop harvested.

Indonesia is experiencing a mild La Niña event, resulting in increased rainfall and pushing palm oil production back to normal levels.

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

Post’s June forecast for MY15/16 total domestic oilseed production is 3.26 million tons lower than the estimated 57 million tons in MY14/15.

Over the last several years, the Bulgarian oilseeds industry has invested in expanding capacities, diversifying and adding value to some of the major field crops.

Production of cotton, far and away Pakistan’s largest domestic source of oilseeds, is expected to reach 10.0 million 480 lb bales, unchanged from the current USDA 2015/16 forecast.

As a result of dry weather conditions, crude palm oil (CPO) production for 2015 is estimated to decline by 10 percent to 1.8 million metric tons (MMT) from 2.0 MMT in 2014.