Twenty-six South Korean exporters held consultations worth $35.38 million with 146 Vietnamese buyers at a major food fair. Companies are widening their focus beyond instant noodles and tteokbokki to fresh fruit, red ginseng and health foods.
Greece is expanding a voluntary price-reduction initiative covering branded goods, private-label products and school supplies. Discounts take effect on August 31, while the supermarket industry expects 1,000-1,100 basic branded product codes to participate.
Mexican beef imports from Brazil declined 8.5% in January-July 2026 after Mexico resumed charging a tariff on the product. The measure halted the triple-digit growth recorded during the tariff-free years.
Germany’s paper and pulp industry recorded lower production and revenue in the first half of 2026. Packaging paper and board remained the largest segment, producing 6.4 million tonnes, but its output was unchanged year on year.
Rice producers in Morocco’s Gharb region face renewed pressure after several drought-affected seasons were followed by flooding. The weather damage is increasing concern that imported rice could gain ground while the domestic industry struggles to recover.
India's central government has approved the Gobardhan scheme with an outlay of 23,731 crore rupees, roughly $2.8 billion, to produce Bio-CNG from cattle dung and crop residue. Indian explainers have framed it as the next step after E20 petrol, but upgraded biomethane is chemically the same methane already sold as CNG. The constraint is feedstock logistics rather than technology.
Chicken meat prices rose across 188 Indonesian regencies and cities in early August 2026, according to BPS. The national beef average reached Rp 143,137 per kilogram, while checks in South Jakarta found retail prices as high as Rp 150,000.
GM Korea sold 42,119 vehicles in July, with exports accounting for 98.1% of the total as domestic sales fell to 766 units. Strong overseas demand for two compact SUVs contrasts with a shrinking Korean product range and direct service network ahead of the 2028 expiry of its bailout agreement.
Russian production of alkaline and rare earth metals increased 6.7% over the year to 8,000 tonnes, TAdviser reported. The country has also approved a plan to develop the sector, although the available report provides no timetable, investment figures or metal-by-metal breakdown.
Heavy rainfall in Telangana and Maharashtra has disrupted coal mining and rail transport, cutting deliveries to Karnataka to about five or six rakes per day from around 11. Power plant inventories remain adequate, but prolonged disruption could increase restocking demand and support regional thermal coal prices.
Rosstat estimates per-capita consumption of meat and meat products in Russia reached an all-time high of 100.7 kg in meat equivalent in 2025, up from 99.9 kg a year earlier. Poultry accounted for the entire increase, rising to 26.3 kg, while pork slipped to 17.1 kg and beef held at 9.3 kg. Economist Leonid Kholod links the record to chicken and pork prices falling in real terms to 2020-2021 levels.
Kazakhstan more than doubled rapeseed exports to Russia and increased shipments to China 8.8-fold in the current season. Exports to Latvia also rose, while sunflower seed shipments declined.
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