Austria ups Vietnamese rice imports
Austria& # 39;s largest commodity importer, plans to increase imports of Vietnamese rice from 50,000 tonnes in 2008 to 70,000 tonnes this year.
Rice importation this year may reach 2 million tons
MANILA, PHILIPPINES THE COUNTRY might import up to two million metric tons of rice this year, more than a tenth higher than the 1.8 million MT target announced last February, the Agriculture chief said yesterday.
Crop Forecast to Show State of the Sector
A U.S. Agriculture Department report due out on Tuesday is expected to give the first clear signs of how deeply recession-leery farmers plan to cut crop production.
Technology Improves Peanut Grading Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) scientists at the National Peanut Research Laboratory have developed a new technology that improves peanut grading.
Thailand plans to adjust prices rubber (Intimex Hanoi)Mr Somchai Charnnarongkul, Managing Director of the Agriculture Department under the Ministry of Agriculture of Thailand, said that this country has postponed plans to buy 100,000 tons of rubber in the market in order to adjust to increasing this figure to 200,000 tons.
China plans to buy 50,000 tons of rubber for reserve (Intimex hanoi) After the reduction of rubber price by strong global economic degradation reducing strong demand, China plans to buy 50,000 tons of rubber to storage reserve country reservation.
Exports of coffee Guatemala reducing 10% According to Coffee Association of Guatemala , export of coffee in this country in December of 2008- the third months of the 2008/09 - has decreased 10% compared with the previous month, to 145,375 bag of 60 kg.
