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The bill amending Pakistan’s 1976 Seed Act has cleared the first step of the legislative process.

The soon-to-be-harvested sugarcane crop was largely unaffected by recent flooding.

Recent floods damaged an estimated 80,000 hectares of cotton area, a small fraction of Pakistan’s 3.1 million hectares of cotton.

The Government of Pakistan has announced a seed cotton support price of 34 cents per pound for the upcoming harvest, a significant increase over the prevailing farm price of 26 cents per pound.

Italy is the largest peach and nectarine producer in the EU-28 and ranks second in the world after China. Italy’s MY2014/15 peach and nectarine production is preliminarily forecast to stay flat.