Finland’s pork sector could lose about €40 million in 2027 if sales blocked by African swine fever restrictions cannot be redirected. China, Japan and South Africa have restricted Finnish pork, while South Korea and New Zealand have accepted supplies from outside the infected zone.
Azerbaijan plans to raise domestic seed coverage from 54% to 100% for wheat and barley by 2030. The program combines higher local production with stricter field, soil and laboratory controls under a new seed law.
Domestically produced sunflower seed has taken 65% of the Russian market since the start of the year, six percentage points more than a year earlier, according to the agency Zerno On-Line. Rapeseed and soybean remain far behind, with a combined domestic share below 40% and imports still covering the shortfall of high-yielding genotypes. Underfunded adaptation testing is named as the critical unresolved problem across oilseeds.
Footage from China showing stem lettuce dipped into barrels of an unidentified liquid, reported to be a colouring agent banned on fresh vegetables, has triggered a food-safety controversy. South Korean authorities are checking whether affected product was imported into the country. The case follows the earlier controversy over cabbage treated with formaldehyde.
A New New Shipping Line container vessel has left Murmansk with 26,400 tonnes of Russian potash fertilizer after delivering 502 containers of Chinese automotive components. The voyage completes the return leg of Port Alliance’s experiment to assess a two-way Arctic freight corridor.
Poland’s sugar-beet area has fallen to about 235,000 hectares for the 2026/2027 season, while contracted volume is down approximately 10%. The tighter raw-material outlook and high production costs could gradually lift sugar and sugar-containing product prices.
Spain produced 41.5 million hectolitres of beer in 2025, 5% more than in 2019, while consumption reached 43.4 million hectolitres. Alcohol-free beer accounted for 14% of domestic sales, helping Spain outperform a declining European market.
Colombia’s per capita pork consumption has reached 15.8 kilograms, according to sector indicators from Porkcolombia. Expanding demand is raising the commercial value of biosecurity, vaccination and disease prevention across the country’s pork industry.
Chile is bringing more than 30 exporters together with over 70 buyers and importers from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan at a three-day summit in Seoul. Fresh fruit, salmon, pork, wine and processed foods are central to its effort to expand in affluent North Asian markets.
Prolonged dry weather has reduced river flows in Kalimantan, forcing coal barges to adjust cargo volumes and departure schedules. The disruption could slow mine-to-port logistics and make coal deliveries less predictable.
Analysts at SKM.PRO calculate that Russia's single-rate wholesale electricity price could reach 6,500-6,900 rubles per MWh by 2042, rising 1.6-1.7 times faster than inflation in 2026 prices. The main driver is a capacity build-out of 88.5 GW, which would lift the capacity component to 65% of the price. Consumption is currently flat, with the System Operator reporting a 0.1% decline since the start of the year.
Eurasia Energies is preparing a trial shipment of 11,000–12,000 tonnes of Mongolian coking coal to India through Russia’s Far East. The route could diversify supply, but congested rail infrastructure and high transit costs constrain its potential to scale.
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