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Kyiv Acts On 'Compromise' Plan After Filing WTO Trade Complaint Over Food Ban

Ukraine has appealed to three neighbouring countries in the European Union to embark on 'constructive dialogue' to end a dispute over agricultural trade, a...

Ukraine Thanks Bulgaria For Not Extending Food Export Restrictions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was grateful to Bulgaria for not extending restrictions on Ukrainian grain exports from 15 September.

Cristal Union Invites French Farmers To Go Back To Sugar Beet

French farmers should consider turning back to sugar beet in 2024 after a drop in planted area in recent years, France's No. 2 sugar maker Cristal Union sa...

Südzucker Unit Drops Plan To Lift French Sugar Output, Citing Ukraine Imports

Sugar maker Saint Louis Sucre, owned by Germany's Südzucker, asked French farmers not to increase their beet output in 2024 to avoid a fall in prices...

World Food Price Index Back At Two-Year Low Despite Rice Surge: FAO

The United Nations food agency's world price index fell in August to a new two-year low, reversing a rebound seen the previous month, as a decline in most...

German Exporters See Decline In Trade In 2023: BGA

Most German exporters see trade declining or even strongly declining in 2023, the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) has said...

Ukraine Winter Wheat Sowing Seen Unchanged Despite Export Crisis

Ukrainian farmers are not expected to reduce the area of winter wheat they sow for the 2024 harvest despite higher logistics costs due to the wartime expor...

EU Cuts Cereal And Oilseed Crop Forecasts Again

The European Commission has further reduced its outlook for European Union production of major cereal and oilseed crops this season, with maize seeing the...