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FAS Post estimates India’s marketing year (MY) 2019/20 cotton production at 29.3 million 480 lb. bales (37.5 million 170-kilogram bales/6.4 MMT) from 12.45 million hectares of planted area.

The Office of Agriculture Affairs forecasts refined sugar production in MY2019/20 to increase by approximately 14 percent or 335,000 MT to reach 2.74 MMT.

Assuming normal weather conditions, total oilseed production in marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (October-September) is forecast at upwards of 38 million metric tons (MMT), 8 percent....

From January to June 2018, Egypt imported $2.6 billion worth of food ingredients.

In MY 2019/20, cotton area harvested is forecast to drop by almost 31 percent to 97,000 ha, from 141,000 ha in MY 2018/19.

On March 29, 2019, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) notified the quantitative restrictions for the Indian fiscal year (IFY) 2019/20 (April/March) on imports of pulses including mung beans,

On March 29, 2019, the Government of India’s (GOI) Ministry of Finance (MOF) further deferred the implementation date from April 1, 2019, to May 2, 2019, of the proposed increase....

Egypt’s soybean imports in marketing year (MY) 2019/20 are forecast at 4 million metric tons (MMT), up 500,000 MT from the MY 2018/19 estimate.

India’s marketing year (MY) 2019/20 cotton production estimate is 29.3 million 480 lb. bales on 12.45 million hectares. Yields are expected to rebound in most of the states after an erratic monsoon...

India is heading for third consecutive record wheat harvest with marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (April/March) production forecast at 100 million metric tons (MMT).