The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries is seeking to raise smallholder productivity and incomes while protecting access to markets with sustainability requirements. CPOPC and WWF Indonesia say verifiable field data will be essential to demonstrate producer practices and economic conditions.
Washington plans to use government-backed credit guarantees to help Venezuelan importers buy US food and agricultural commodities. The initiative could also include a trade mission, technical exchanges and food assistance, although no aid budget or shipment volume has been approved.
Turkish peach and nectarine exports reached $343.4 million between January and August 2026, up 134% year-on-year, according to newturkpost.com citing Turkish media. The report gives no tonnage or destination breakdown, leaving open whether the gain was driven by volume or by price.
Purchase prices for sunflower seed in Ukraine fell by another 500–1,000 hryvnia per tonne over the past week to 18,000–18,500 hryvnia including VAT, or $360–365 per tonne excluding VAT. Russian strikes on oilseed extraction plants in Mykolaiv and Dnipro and on Danube port infrastructure have forced processors to cut crush volumes. Export clearance is being complicated by minimum export prices set above the market.
Vietnam imported more than 2.1 million tonnes of raw cashews worth over $3.5 billion in the first eight months of the year, with Cambodia supplying more than 1 million tonnes of that total. Cambodian shipments enter Vietnam at a zero import duty under a bilateral trade arrangement for 2025-2026, helping processors cover a domestic raw material gap that keeps Vietnam the world's largest exporter of cashew kernels.
The USDA's September report raised the 2026/27 global oilseed production forecast by 2.44 million tonnes to a record 723.46 million tonnes, 22.42 million tonnes above the previous season. World vegetable oil output was also revised up to a record 245.37 million tonnes, and prices for palm, sunflower and rapeseed oil fell even as Brent crude rallied to $109 per barrel.
The Croatian Agricultural Chamber has presented a working document proposing five producer-owned grain silos of 50,000 tonnes each in five Slavonian counties, for a total of 250,000 tonnes of storage. Producer organisations would have to fill at least half of each silo from members' own crops, with financing split between rural development measures, an HBOR-backed instrument and own funds.
Retail heating coal in Poland has risen by roughly 300 zł per tonne in two weeks, with depots quoting 1,600–2,000 zł, according to wnp.pl. Coarse grades are hardest to obtain, with delivery waits of about a month. A utility executive was dismissed after warning that a cold winter would leave the country short of coal.
Chile has activated a new agreement intended to increase shipments of fresh fruit to China, lu17.com reports. The outlet describes it as the result of technical negotiations aimed at optimising logistics and strengthening Chilean competitiveness in the Asian market. No effective date, covered species or target volumes have been made public.
Foreign direct investment in Romania dropped to €669 million in the first half of 2026 from €3.72 billion a year earlier, according to National Bank of Romania data cited by ARICE president Daniel Constantin. Lower reinvested earnings and reduced intragroup lending account for most of the €3.05 billion gap, alongside one-off transactions such as the transfer of Carrefour's Romanian business to a resident owner.
Dutch development bank FMO has signed a four-year, €20 million working-capital facility for Ivory Cocoa Products. The financing will help the San Pedro processor secure cocoa beans and increase local grinding as Côte d’Ivoire targets more domestic value addition.
Vietnam's merchandise imports from South Korea accelerated sharply in August 2026 and across January–August, according to calculations by vinanet.vn based on Vietnam Customs Department data. The summary notes the gains were registered despite conditions not specified in the published excerpt, and no product-level breakdown has accompanied it so far.
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