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FSSAI published in India’s official gazette a draft regulation which proposes to adopt 46 food additive standards previously issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs...

The Government of Bangladesh proposed national budget for FY 2016-17 (July-June) is BDT 3.41 trillion ($43 billion USD), which is 28 percent higher than the revised budget of last year.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published in India’s official gazette a draft Regulation on standards for cereals and cereal products.

This report identifies Brazil’s import requirements for foreign export certificates. An export certificate matrix and outline is included.

India offers promising export growth prospects for U.S. agriculture with a large and rapidly expanding middle class, rising disposable incomes and shifting consumption patterns...

Although Bt cotton remains the only biotech crop approved for commercial cultivation, the Government of India (GOI) made some progress in 2016....

The Brazilian orange crop for MY 2016/17 is forecast at 446 million 40.8-kg boxes, an increase of 95 million boxes (MBx) relative to the previous season, due to good blossoming and favorable weather.

Brazil is the world's second-largest producer of biotech crops. Post forecasts a 10-percent increase in area planted to biotech crops in the upcoming 2013/14 Brazilian crop year (October-September).

On December 8, 2016, the Ministry of Finance removed the import duty on wheat indefinitely from the earlier provision of 10 percent import duty effective till March 1, 2017.

The Government of Pakistan has set the wheat production target at a record 26 million metric tons for the 2016 Rabi (winter) season. Wheat area is not expected to change significantly from a year ago.

The report contains the text of Pakistan’s proposed Geographical Indication Protection Bill. The Bill is still a draft and will have to pass through various phases of approval before submission...

Pakistan is a small but growing market for imported consumer food products and the small modern retail sector is growing slowly.