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Ethiopia is Africa’s leading coffee producer and the fifth largest in the world. MY15/16 production is forecast at 6.508 million bags (390,500 metric tons).

Post estimates that the 2014/15 MY production of apples will increase by fourteen percent to 900,000 MT and the table grapes production will increase by seven percent to 340,000 MT...

Ethiopia's cotton production, which has remained fairly flat in recent years, is estimated at 184,000 bales (40,000 metric tons) in MY14/15.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts an increase of Uganda’s coffee production in the marketing year (MY) 2015/2016 to 3.8 million sixty kilogram bags...

FAS Nairobi forecasts that Tanzania’s coffee production will increase to a record 1.2 million sixty kilogram bags in the marketing year (MY) 2015/2016...

FAS/Nairobi forecasts Kenya's coffee production to remain at 900 thousand sixty-kilogram bags in the marketing year (MY) 2015/2016.

The Agricultural Economic Fact Sheet for South Africa has been updated to include 2014 data, the per capita consumption of major commodities and a reference to South Africa's biotechnology status.

Zimbabwe’s sugar output in 2015/16 MY is forecast to increase by 14 percent to about 506,000 MT, on improved cane yields and an increase in area harvested.

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...

The 4 GCC countries, along with Saudi Arabic and Bahrain comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allow the importation of genetically engineered food products of plant origin.

U.S. ethanol exports rebounded in 2014, with value and volume both up approximately 35 percent from the previous year, although still below the record set in 2011.