Koka d.o.o., Croatia's leading poultry company, has presented a new high-technology hatchery in Varaždin worth €20 million, financed entirely from its own funds. The plant sorts 30,000 eggs an hour and is planned to reach 45 million day-old chicks a year across two phases. It forms part of a wider modernisation cycle that includes €1.2 million and €6.5 million processing lines.
Argentina shipped 154,808 tonnes of beef tallow in 2025 against 6,819 tonnes in 2015, worth $125.2 million, according to a Rosario Board of Trade report. The driver is the US renewable diesel industry, whose monthly tallow intake rose from about 75,000 tonnes in 2021 to nearly 450,000 tonnes by late 2025. The United States now takes around 60% of Argentine tallow exports, against under 5% in the 2018-2022 average.
Following its administrative merger, Vinh Long has about 120,000 hectares of coconut plantations, equal to roughly 50% of Vietnam’s total planted area. The scale creates a foundation for a concentrated production and processing cluster, while increasing the industry’s exposure to conditions in one province.
Mars, Incorporated is investing more than 7 billion baht to build its first Pringles factory in Thailand. The project adds a major snack-manufacturing asset to Mars’s Thai operations, although production capacity and the opening schedule were not disclosed.
The Thai Specialty Coffee Association says national coffee consumption is approaching 100,000 tonnes a year while domestic production does not exceed 30,000 tonnes. The roughly 70,000-tonne gap is drawing farmers, roasters and cafe operators into the sector, including Gen Y workers returning from Bangkok to plant coffee in their home provinces.
Indonesia has agreed to export an initial 1,000 tonnes of premium rice to Malaysia, with potential annual volumes of 200,000 tonnes. The move is backed by projected 2026 output of 38.6 million tonnes and national stocks of about 5.2 million tonnes.
Credit Agricole expects wheat and maize prices in Poland to rise through 2027 as global grain production falls below consumption. USDA projections cited by Tygodnik Rolniczy show world stocks declining by 5.2% in the 2026/2027 season.
Ukraine became a net importer of dairy products by value in January-August 2026 as imports rose 39% to 56,200 tonnes. Cheese accounted for 58% of imports, intensifying competition for domestic processors while export revenue fell 17%.
Milk consumption in Colombia has risen to 168 liters per person, but access remains uneven across income groups. With national output reaching a two-decade high in 2025, Fedegán is proposing public procurement and a tripartite fund to support low-income consumers and absorb surplus milk.
Malaysia expects palm oil exports to remain near 16 million tonnes in 2027 as lower Indonesian output and stronger Indonesian biodiesel demand restrict competing supply. Malaysian stocks reached 2.82 million tonnes in August 2026, but MPOC expects the country to become more important to global buyers.
Date production in Iraq’s Karbala province has exceeded 220,000 tonnes, around 40,000 tonnes more than last year, Al-Sabaah reported. The larger harvest expands potential supply for fresh sales and processing, but available information does not specify export volumes, varieties or processing capacity.
Exports of new cars previously registered in Romania rose 58% in the first eight months of the year, approaching 9,000 vehicles. Dealers exploit price differences with Western Europe, making some registrations look like domestic sales even though the cars quickly leave the country.
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