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The Ethiopian Sugar Corporation (ESC) recently floated an international tender for 200,000 metric tons of sugar.

Ethiopia’s coffee production for MY18/19 (Oct-Sep) remains largely unchanged from the previous year at 7.1 million 60-kilo bags (~426,000 metric tons).

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a ten percent increase in Uganda’s coffee production in the marketing year (MY) 2018/2019 due to favorable weather and harvests from newly matured plantations.

Pulses play an important role in Ethiopia’s food security and economy. Production is estimated at 2.5 million metric tons in 16/17 (Jun-Jul).

On May 16, 2018, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a clarification on its April 25, 2018, notification regarding the quantitative restrictions (QRs) on imports of peas....

The Ethiopian government recently retendered for a third time to buy 400,000 tons of imported milling wheat for the country’s bread subsidy program.

The severe drought in the Western Cape, will severely impact the availability of irrigation water in the 2017/18 MY. As a result, the 2017/18 MY production and export of deciduous fruits....

India’s MY 2018/19 coffee crop (Oct/Sep) is forecast at 5.5 million 60-kg bags as erratic rains and unusually high temperatures touched coffee growing regions.

The first edition of Food India, inspired by SIAL, will be held between September 16 -18, 2018, at Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a stagnation in Kenya's coffee production in marketing year (MY) 2018/2019 due to the start of a production slump that is associated with coffee’s biennial bearing cycle.

India has invited World Trade Organization (WTO) members to provide comments on its draft standards for coffee, coffee-chicory mixture and packaged drinking water.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast a near normal Southwest Monsoon for 2018 suggesting that June to September rainfall is likely to be 97 percent of the Long Period Average (LPA).