Guatemala's agriculture ministry has warned producers in at least 12 departments of temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius this week, with maize, beans, coffee, sugarcane, bananas and cardamom exposed. Monitoring of El Niño damage to staple grains will run until at least March 2027. A white maize import quota of 50,000 tonnes remains roughly 43,000 tonnes unused.
Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture says chicken exports rose 33 percent and egg exports 13 percent in 2026, with Singapore taking both eggs and live birds and Vietnam buying day-old chicks. Five additional markets in Asia and Europe have entered the ministry's pipeline over the past two to three months. Baseline volumes and values behind the percentages were not disclosed.
Turkish apple exporters are entering the new campaign with better expectations on volumes and price competitiveness after a difficult previous season, according to Elpa Gida head Mehmet Cakmak, speaking to FreshPlaza. India remains the main market for Turkish Red Delicious, with added interest from Saudi Arabia and Libya, while Red Sea and Suez routing stays a constraint. Egypt, Colombia and Brazil remain closed for lack of phytosanitary protocols or because of high duties.
The number of passenger car brands registered in Russia reached 123 in the first eight months of 2026, more than double the 50-60 brands sold before 2020, analyst Sergey Tselikov said. Chinese manufacturers, newly created Russian-badged brands and alternative import channels drove the expansion. The count of new car models on offer approached 900 this year, against no more than 500 before 2021.
The Victorian Government has announced $250,000 for the Growing Demand for Victorian Dairy Exports Program, matched by Dairy Australia for a combined $500,000. The money funds scholarships and international seminars aimed at Greater China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Victoria supplies around 74 per cent of Australia's dairy exports by value, worth $2.79 billion in 2024-25.
Kazakhstan increased imports of Russian milk and cream by 8% in value to $14.7 million over January–July 2026, while sweetened condensed milk and cream rose 30% to $28 million. Liquid milk volumes were flat at about 10,100 tonnes, meaning the entire value gain came from price, while condensed shipments grew about 20% to almost 10,200 tonnes. Russia supplied 30.8% of all Kazakh goods imports over the seven months.
Agricultural damage in southern Lebanon covers more than 56,000 hectares, equivalent to about 22.5% of the region’s farmland. The government is working on access permits, cash assistance and a $40 million World Bank project while seeking to expand agricultural exports.
Argentina's sunflower complex exported US$2,419.4 million between January and July 2026, double the year-earlier figure, according to the Argentine Agro-industrial Council. Planting intentions for 2026/27 stand at 3 million hectares, up 5.3%, while January-July crush rose 25.4% to 3.42 million tonnes.
Council for Leather Exports chairman Ramesh Kumar Juneja said India's exports of leather, footwear and allied products could reach $5.5 billion in 2026-27, up about 12% year on year, according to news agency PTI. The report does not give a base-year value, a product-wise split or destination markets.
South Korea's National Institute of Crop Science has developed sesame varieties with about three times the lignan content of conventional seed and a perilla variety with roughly 66% alpha-linolenic acid. Sesame oil exports rose 28% last year and reached $8.43 million in the first half of this year. Pilot production complexes are being set up in Andong, Jinju and Gochang ahead of commercial launches.
A prolonged dry season is depressing dairy production in Kenya and Uganda at the same time. Kenya is buying more Ugandan milk to cover a domestic supply deficit, while Jesa Farm Dairy has announced a temporary shortage of its own products on the Ugandan market.
Indian group Essar Biofuels signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11 with Côte d'Ivoire's CCAK and CEPICI for a cashew shell processing plant valued at more than $75 million. The facility would extract cashew nut shell liquid and convert it into cardanol. The project follows a near-doubling of local kernel processing, which reached about 660,000 tonnes in 2025.
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