Greek yogurt and Greek-style yogurt are gaining ground in Asia after becoming established in Europe and the United States. China and Japan are emerging as key markets, while Italy and the United Kingdom still dominate Greek yogurt exports.
Two bills before Poland's Sejm would impose a total ban on advertising and promotion of alcoholic drinks, including beer, and extend restrictions to non-alcoholic versions. The brewers' association Browary Polskie estimates direct economic costs of at least 700 million zloty a year, spread across media, sports clubs and hospitality. The proposals land on a beer market that has been shrinking for eight consecutive years.
Romania sold more than 2.5 million tonnes of common wheat outside the European Union in the first ten weeks of the 2026/2027 marketing year, 31.9% more than a year earlier, while EU exports as a whole fell about 1% to a three-year low. Barley shipments topped 1.2 million tonnes, roughly 75% of everything the bloc delivered to third countries.
Export prices for Indian rice have climbed to their highest level in a year, with Thai quotations rising at the same time, according to recent rice market reports. The simultaneous move at the world's two largest export origins has renewed concern about a broader upturn in global rice prices.
Vietnam shipped 477,894 tonnes of cashew nuts in the first eight months of 2026 for $3.37 billion, with volume down 0.9% but value up 2.8%. The average export price rose 3.8% to about $7,061 per tonne. China was the largest buyer by value at $839.5 million, ahead of the United States and the Netherlands.
Moeve, formerly Cepsa, has begun building Onuba, the first phase of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, at Palos de la Frontera in Huelva. The plant will start with 300 MW of electrolysis capacity, expandable by 105 MW, and carries combined investment of more than €1 billion. Hy24 and COFIDES have taken the 29% stake previously earmarked for Masdar.
India is considering a reduction of roughly 5 percentage points in the basic import duty on vegetable oils after domestic edible oil prices rose about 20% in a year. No official decision has been announced, and officials are weighing consumer relief against the support level set for domestic soybean.
Service stations in Spain and Portugal sold 29.22 million tonnes of fuel in 2025, up 2.5%, according to the DBK Sectoral Observatory published by Informa. Lower pump prices pushed aggregate turnover down 0.4% to 45,583 million euros, even as the network grew 1% to 15,978 sites.
Brent crude above US$107 a barrel lifts Malaysia's petroleum revenue and export earnings, but rising subsidy, logistics and input costs offset part of the gain, UNIRAZAK economist Barjoyai Bardai told Utusan Malaysia. He said a 7.1 million barrel build in US crude inventories could cap prices while West Asian supply risk keeps a premium in the market.
Average sunflower profitability in Rostov region was 17.3% last year, the weakest in a decade, and industry figures expect margins to approach zero this season. Production costs above 22,000–25,000 rubles per tonne collide with bids that start at 30,000 rubles and fall to 19,000–20,000 in practice, as a record 22.2 million tonne national crop outruns crushing capacity.
Peanut prices in Adana, the province that covers about 60 percent of Turkey's peanut requirement, have dropped to 60-70 lira per kilogram in the middle of the harvest. Growers in Kozan say traders based in Osmaniye have stopped buying, pushing the price down from 100-110 lira at the start of the season. Yields this year are reported as strong, with one farmer harvesting about 20 tonnes from 50 decares.
A study by SGH Warsaw School of Economics surveyed 64 experts from Poland, Ukraine and the wider region on the consequences of Ukrainian accession to the EU. A win-win outcome was the most frequently selected scenario, chosen by 46 percent of respondents, while Polish experts more often pointed to gains for Ukraine at the expense of Central and Eastern Europe. For Polish dairy farmers, already facing falling purchase prices, the decisive factor is the terms of integration rather than accession itself.
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