Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department exported $2.316 billion in 2025, led by soybean meal, natural gas and soybean oil. Brazil and Colombia each received 21% of its exports, while Peru accounted for 20%, according to the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade.
Perum Bulog has absorbed 4 million tons of rice equivalent in domestically produced paddy and rice, matching the government's full-year 2026 procurement target with about three months of the year left. President Director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said buying will continue on presidential instruction even though the task set under Presidential Instruction No. 4 of 2026 has been fulfilled in full.
Soybean futures in Chicago ended the week without direction after the Trump–Xi meeting produced a truce extension but no new Chinese buying commitments. Brazilian cash prices held firm on a dollar near R$5.20, with ports testing R$160 to R$170 per 60-kg bag. Consultants warned that an inverted curve, with futures R$5 to R$10 below spot, penalises growers who store beans into next year.
Malaysia's Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad will lead an official palm oil trade mission to India from 27 September to 1 October 2026, coordinated by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council. Shipments to India rose 40.4% to 2.26 million tonnes in the first eight months of 2026, lifting Malaysia's share of Indian palm oil imports to 39.2%. The delegation will target oleochemicals, specialty fats and other higher-value derivatives in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Kazakh dairy plants produced 54,500 tonnes of cheese and cottage cheese, up 13%, according to sector data presented at the Cheese Open event in Aktau and reported by dairynews.today. Growth is being driven by plant modernisation and a wider semi-hard range, while raw milk purchase prices have fallen from 250 to 160 tenge and milk powder imports from Russia have grown sixfold in five years.
India's state-owned oil companies have floated a tender to import 2.75 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas from the United States for delivery in 2027, Navbharat Times reports. The publication links the timing to continuing tensions in West Asia and frames it as a shift away from India's traditional Middle Eastern supply base. Pricing terms, the participating buyers and the receiving ports were not disclosed.
Çumra Şeker has started its 23rd sugar beet procurement campaign after a 22 million euro upgrade that raised daily slicing capacity from 16,000 to 20,000 tonnes, with sister plant Konya Şeker going from 10,000 to 12,000 tonnes. The two factories processed 3,430,500 tonnes of beet and produced 496,000 tonnes of sugar last season. Factories under the Konya Sugar Beet Growers' Cooperative supply about 17 percent of Turkey's sugar requirement.
France's fresh-market tomato production is forecast at 479,800 tonnes in 2026, down 4% year on year and against the 2021-2025 average, as heatwaves cut yields. Planted area still rose 1% to 2,798 hectares. Prices peaked in August at 43% above August 2025 and 70% above the five-year average, while the volume trade deficit widened 14%.
Pulpex, backed by Diageo and Pilot Lite, is opening its first commercial-scale paper bottle factory in Glasgow this month, targeting up to 40 million bottles a year. Purely Scottish water and Smol detergent will be the first products sold in the bottles this autumn, backed by £62 million in funding including £43.5 million from the UK's National Wealth Fund.
Vietnam's government issued Decree 365/2026/ND-CP on 23 September 2026, replacing the rice trade framework built on Decree 107/2018/ND-CP. The text cuts export business conditions from three to two, shortens licensing from 15 to 10 working days and reduces reporting from three filings a month to one. It also tightens export entrustment, certificate revocation and the rules for centralized export contracts.
Vietnam shipped 83,433 tonnes of cinnamon worth $213.9 million in the first eight months of 2026, according to the Vietnam Pepper and Spice Association, making it the world's leading exporter by value despite ranking only third in production. Asian demand fell 8.2% while shipments to the Americas rose 35.1% and to Africa 24.8%.
Lebanon and Jordan are pursuing closer agricultural trade and logistics cooperation to expand access to Arab markets. The initiative focuses on fruit including apples, grapes, bananas and avocados, alongside plans for a Lebanon Day in Jordan in May 2027.
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