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India Rice Prices Retreat From Highs, Vietnam Sees Fresh Offers

Indian export rice prices retreated this week from a more than one-year peak that slowed demand, while Vietnamese rates held near a two-year high...

India Rice Prices Gain, Expensive Thai Offers Lose Out

Rice export prices from India held near a nine-month high this week on strong demand from buyers in both Asia and Africa, with Thailand losi...

India's Rice Export Prices Hit 9-Month Peak As Demand Recovers

Rice prices in top exporter India hit a nine-month high this week, boosted by a pick-up in demand from African countries even as supplies remain const...

Coronavirus Upends Global Food Supply Chains In Latest Economic Shock

In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed...

LDC Announces Research Partnership To Develop Fish Feed

Louis Dreyfus Company has announced that it has entered into a research partnership with Barramundi Asia and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) to deve...

German Meat Processor Tönnies Benefits From China, Asian Demand

German meat processor Tönnies on Friday reported increased sales, with the company benefiting from rising demand from Asia, especially China. Sales...

Treasury Wine Estates Reins Back On Earnings Expectations Due To Coronavirus

Wine producer Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has said that it no longer expects to achieve its forecasted EBIT growth of between 5% and 10% for the full year,...

Tesco Completes China Exit With Joint Venture Stake Sale

Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has completed its exit from China with the sale of a 20% stake in a joint venture to a unit of its state-run partner China...