Fedearroz estimates that 305,000 tonnes of white rice entered Colombia illegally during the period covered by its figures. The federation placed national rice consumption at 2.21 million tonnes and the contraband share at 11.83%.
Turkey’s canned citrus exports rose 28% from $30 million to $38.5 million, with the industry targeting more than $50 million by year-end. Germany remained the largest market, while the Aegean Region accounted for 48.5% of national export revenue.
Germany is maintaining its 2029 sewage-sludge phosphorus-recovery deadline, although the Environment Agency expects no more than 25% of the required ash-processing capacity to be available. Incineration capacity is expanding, but industrial-scale recovery technology, product quality and storage rules remain unresolved.
Britain is preparing a deposit-return system covering single-use beverage cans and plastic bottles across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. The scheme will add a 20-pence deposit and aims to raise recycling from about 50% to 80–90%.
Russia exported 580 tonnes of fish products to Brazil in the first nine months of 2026, up 200.2% year on year, while revenue climbed fifteenfold to $3.54 million. New cod shipments, particularly higher-value dried and salted clipfish, drove the unusually large increase in export value.
China’s Snow Valley Agricultural Group plans to build a potato-processing complex in Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar region with annual capacity of 100,000-200,000 tonnes. The proposed $100-200 million project would combine processing with breeding, seed production, storage and logistics.
A field-based study estimates that unauthorized herbicide-tolerant Bt cotton occupied 24-30% of India’s cotton acreage in 2025-26, equivalent to about 2.62-2.9 million hectares. Seed industry organizations are pressing the government to approve the technology and bring an expanding informal seed market under regulatory oversight.
Four producer associations have asked Bosnia and Herzegovina's trade ministry to impose levies of 0.38 to 3.19 convertible marks per kilogram on dairy imports under headings 0401-0406, plus tariff quotas based on a three-year average. Customs data show import volumes flat in the first eight months of 2026 while the import bill fell by more than 12 million marks. The farmgate price of raw milk has dropped 30 percent in eight months, with farms closing and milking herds being cut.
Disruptions at Russian refineries are pushing Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to consider Iranian petroleum supplies. Rail constraints, US sanctions and Russia’s established infrastructure could keep the opening small and temporary.
Indonesia could face a 27-million-metric-tonne palm oil supply deficit if production fails to keep pace with rising demand, industry association Gapki warned. With plantation expansion constrained, the group says domestic CPO yields may need to reach about five metric tonnes per hectare annually.
Germany’s window market is forecast to grow 2.2% in 2026 and 1.5% in 2027, reaching 13.35 million window units. Renovation is expected to remain the main source of demand, while weak nonresidential new construction and financing costs constrain the recovery.
Packaging companies and allied groups spent at least €2.5 million on lobbying in France in 2025, according to a Zero Waste France report covered by Le Monde. The activity targeted rules affecting a packaging market worth about €22 billion, as France falls behind its plastic reduction and recycling goals.
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