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Rice export prices remain unchanged from the previous week.

Storms, drought, fires, and bark beetle have caused immense damage to German forests in recent years. Waldsterben (Forest dieback) is slowly gaining public attention.

Export prices further declined 2-4 percent due to the lack of new inquiries.

The current 20-year AEDP 2018 (2018 – 2037) revised down the biofuel consumption target, together with a gradual reduction in biofuel price subsidy between 2020 and 2022.

On September 10, Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture confirmed an African swine fever (ASF) case in a wild boar found in Eastern Germany near the German-Polish border.

Export prices declined 2-4 percent due to lack of new inquiries and weakening of the Thai baht.

Export prices further increased 1 percent due to tight domestic supplies and continued exports to African countries.

MY2020/21 rice production is revised down to 18.6 million metric tons due to limited water supplies.