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South Africa is set for a record pome fruit and table grape production in marketing year 2021/22. Favorable weather conditions, new areas under production, and higher yielding cultivars is driving the growth in production.

In MY2021/22, Post projects that table grape production will increase by 15.2 percent, totaling 760,000 MT and exports will increase by 14.2 percent, totaling 600,000 metric tons. For MY2021/22, Post estimates apple production at 1,036,000 MT a 4.8 percent decrease from MY2020/21 on lower planted area.

India notified its draft Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) (Second Amendment) Order (2022), to the Sanitary-Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is inviting comments.

New Zealand’s apple production and exports are forecast to rise in marketing year 2021/22

Indonesia’s Agricultural Quarantine Agency issued Ministry of Agriculture Decree No. 756/2015, recognizing California as a fruit fly free area on June 22, 2015.

Creation of Caspian Sea Regulatory Body . . . Government of Russia Sets Rules for Coordination Among Scientific Organizations . . . The First All-Russia Food Security Forum . . .

Spanish citrus production in MY 2014/15 reached 6.5 MMT representing 62 percent of the EU’s citrus production.

The Far Eastern Group’s retail sector, primarily CitySuper, recently agreed to partner with the ATO Taipei to promote an American Food Festival throughout six stores from July 1-21.

For MY 2014/15 EU-28 citrus productions is projected to decline 4.2 percent than previously anticipated reaching 10.5 MMT...

The Government of India’s (GOI) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published on their website guidelines on product approvals.

Brazilian orange crop for 2015/16 is forecast at 393 million boxes, down 10 percent from the previous year, due to weather related problems during blossoming and a non-uniform harvest.

The impact of the temporary and voluntary suspension of South African citrus exports to the European Union due to Citrus Black Spot (CBS) issues not as extensive as previously anticipated....