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MY2015/16 seed cotton production in Burkina Faso, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal and Chad combined, are expected to drop 10 percent compared to the initial target due to a late start of the rainy season

The deciduous fruit sector in New Zealand is now celebrating its third successive year of profitable returns and is in expansion mode.

The second successive year of low dairy prices is taking its toll on New Zealand dairy farmers both financially and on herd numbers.

As initially forecasted in April 2015, C3+2 countries produced 3.5 million bales (1.8 million tons) of seed cotton in MY2014/15 (Aug/July).

The Government of Cote d’Ivoire having finally adopted the Cartagena Protocol in June 2015, is drafting the biosafety law for Parliament approval.

The New Zealand cattle industry both dairy and beef sectors are now in a period of change which has not played out in entirety yet.

There have been no official changes to the heavily regulated and cautious policy settings operated by the New Zealand Government in relation to products derived from biotechnology.

Even though New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions rose 21% during the period1990-2013, agricultural emissions rose at a slower pace of about 14% over the same period.

Milk Production for New Zealand in 2015 is likely to be reduced by 2.2% from 2014 to consolidate down to 21.4 million metric tons.

The sustained trend of reducing orchard area over the last decade has come to an end over the last two years and after 2014’s 200 hectare increase now stands at 9,049ha.

MY 2014/15 milled rice production in selected countries in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, etc.) reached 5.1 million, a 4.3 percent increase over the previous year’s figure...

Most C3+2 countries [1] experienced a bad rainy season with delayed and intermittent rains.