Hair-product consumption increased 4.1% in 2025 to more than €2.95 billion, according to Cosmetica Italia data reported by Corriere della Sera. Consumers are building multi-step home routines, while beauty groups are expanding portfolios across mass-market and premium price tiers.
Tanzania has moved from broadly covering domestic rice demand in 2018 to producing a structural surplus and supplying neighboring East African markets. Cameroon, meanwhile, remains heavily dependent on imports despite higher tariffs and plans to expand cultivated land.
North African wheat production is forecast to rise by 5.7 million tonnes in 2026/27, allowing regional imports to fall by almost the same amount. Sub-Saharan Africa remains heavily exposed to foreign supply as consumption grows and Black Sea disruptions threaten access to competitively priced grain.
Georgia imported 2,517.3 tonnes of Russian beer worth $2.3 million in January-July 2026, 1.5 times the year-earlier volume. Russia became Georgia’s third-largest foreign beer supplier, while Georgian beer exports fell 34.7%.
Consumers in Spain bought 78,463 tonnes of potato chips between June 2025 and May 2026, up 2.4% year on year. Sales reached €731.11 million, giving the category 24.9% of the Spanish snack market by value.
Vietnam imported an estimated 8.2 million tonnes of corn worth more than $2 billion in the first seven months of 2026. Argentina remained the leading supplier, while shipments from Brazil and India recorded particularly rapid growth.
The date auction season in Al-Mithnab, Saudi Arabia, is receiving production from more than one million palms belonging to over 3,000 farms. Daily participation by farmers, traders and shoppers makes the central market an important point for concentrating and distributing the seasonal crop.
A meeting at the International Potato Center in Agra focused on making the facility a principal South Asian hub for potato and sweet-potato research. The plan prioritizes moving new cultivation technologies from laboratories directly to farmers.
China has delivered a 15,000-tonne food aid shipment to Cuba as the island faces a severe economic and food crisis. The cargo was described as Beijing’s largest food assistance shipment to Cuba in years, with substantially more aid reportedly pledged.
La Cachuera has taken the leading position among Argentina’s yerba mate exporters as foreign sales expand. The changing ranking indicates that overseas demand is reshaping competition in the country’s yerba mate industry.
Ukrainian businesses are calling on parliament to urgently approve legislation strengthening the rules governing excisable goods. NV Business reports that the shadow market costs the state budget more than UAH 33 billion annually.
India’s food-safety regulator has prohibited several well-known rum and whisky labels after tests found neutral alcohol and added flavouring. The action renews scrutiny of molasses-based spirits, ageing claims and the definitions applied to Indian-made foreign liquor.
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