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.
About export market of Vietnam coffee
In 2007/2008, the country exported 1,077,375 tons of the coffee, the turnover reached 2087 million dollars, decreased slightly compared with the amount of the 2006/2007, but increased 31% in value. Price export average 1,937 dollars per ton, up 16% compared with the previous year.
2009:Viet Nam export 5 million tons of rice The situation export of rice in Vietnam in 2009 will be affected by production, increasing of the world rice reserves and degradation of global economy. It predict that the situation will be better on the last half of 2009 with exports may reach five million tons in 2009 due to the current national reserve is about 900,000 tons of rice.
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables 2008 -2014
In order to help the exporters from developing countries (DCs) struggling to market their fresh fruit and vegetables in the European Union. The CBI´s new Export Coaching Programme (ECP) for Fresh Fruit & Vegetables has been especially designed to help DC companies with export ambition and potential to surmount the many obstacles separating them from sustainable European sales. The ECP was launched this year and lasts until 2014.
The rubber exports decreased 9.3% in 2008 (Intimex Hanoi) The global economic crisis has impacted directly in export rubber Vietnam. According to statistics, export rubber in Vietnam in 2008 reached 645 thousand tons with a value of USD 1.57 billion, decreased 9.3% in volume but increased 13.23% in value compared with 2007.
Thailand wants to corporate with Vietnam in Rice (Intimex Hanoi) According to information from the Ministry of Trade of Thailand, Deputy Trade Alongkorn Ponlaboot will propose to the Minister of Trade of Vietnam on the idea of establishing the join venture company between rice traders in Vietnam, Thailand and Exporters of rice in the ASEAN, in order to stable price of Rice on the market.
