India’s consumer affairs department is temporarily stopping open-market sales of tur and chana from PSS stocks. The measure is intended to preserve national buffer reserves amid concern that El Niño could reduce crop output and tighten pulse supplies.
Forensic testing has linked China-grown tomatoes, including some associated with Xinjiang, to products sold by Leggo’s, Coles and Aldi with Australian or Italian origin claims. The findings raise questions about origin labelling and supply-chain transparency in Australia’s processed tomato market.
Hayleys Agriculture Holdings Limited has opened Sri Lanka’s first frozen concentrated coconut water manufacturing facility. The plant, operated through Hayleys Nature Nest (Pvt) Ltd, expands the country’s capacity to process coconut water into a concentrated product.
South Korean prosecutors have indicted 16 companies and 36 individuals over alleged collusion involving flour, sugar and other essential goods. The case has intensified scrutiny of bakery prices after a comparison put a croissant at 2,281 won in Korea and 702 won in Japan.
Russia exported 104,000 tonnes of dairy products worth $245 million in January-May 2026, with volume rising 14% and value increasing 19% year on year. Armenia ranked among the three largest buyers of Russian skim milk powder, while Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan remained the main dairy markets overall.
Russian coking coal prices at Far Eastern ports fell back to late-May levels after a temporary rise caused by a mine accident in China. Weak steel demand, rising inventories and losses at Chinese mills are again pressuring raw-material prices.
Belarus has harvested 1.22 million tonnes of grain at an average yield of 4.16 tonnes per hectare. Winter barley output has exceeded 1 million tonnes for the first time, while the country is also targeting a larger rapeseed crop.
India’s mandatory blending policy has made fuel the country’s largest ethanol market, providing sugar mills and distilleries with government-backed demand. Production capacity now exceeds 20 billion litres a year, compared with about 11 billion litres required for E20, raising concerns about surplus capacity, feedstock pressure and consumer costs.
Vietnam is the seventh-largest market for US agricultural exports, with trade valued at $5.6 billion. The United States ranked as Vietnam’s second-largest agricultural supplier in 2025, behind China, while demand grew for premium seafood including lobster, salmon, snow crab and cod.
Russia’s 5.7 million-tonne pea harvest exceeded domestic and export demand, sending producer prices down 37–40% and leaving stocks in storage. Rising shipments to China and a weaker global crop outlook could help clear the surplus, but carryover stocks, port constraints and the strong ruble will continue to pressure margins.
Hazelnut producer groups across Turkey’s Black Sea region say the TMO purchase price should be no lower than 300 lira per kilogram. A potentially large crop could increase supply, but rising input costs and quality losses in coastal orchards are complicating the outlook.
Brazil could export a record 110 million tonnes of soybeans in 2026/27 as production rises to 180.089 million tonnes. Strong foreign demand and domestic crushing of 63.5 million tonnes would support sales, while record stocks could pressure export premiums.
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