Saudi Arabia exported dates worth 1.938 billion riyals in 2025, retaining first place globally by value for a fourth consecutive year. Shipments reached more than 125 countries, supported by domestic production exceeding 1.9 million tonnes.
OMV Petrom and Romgaz have reconfirmed that the Black Sea Neptun Deep project will deliver first gas into Romania's National Transmission System in the first half of 2027. Plateau output is estimated at about 8 billion cubic metres a year on a 100% basis, backed by roughly €4 billion of investment. The International Energy Agency says the volumes will shift the gas balance across Central and Eastern Europe.
Pakistan has secured an additional 70,000 metric tons of rice exports to Malaysia for October-December 2026. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the shipment would support the national economy and farmers while advancing the government’s export-led growth policy.
Weak US consumer confidence is pressuring Pandora's jewellery sales in what had been a main growth market for the Danish group. The company is investing about 150 million dollars in a plant in Ho Chi Minh City that will cover roughly one third of total output by 2030, with capacity for 60 million pieces a year. Pandora is also tilting sales exposure toward Japan and the rest of Asia and switching from silver to platinum plating.
Piedmont delivered 791,782 tonnes of cow’s milk in the first seven months of 2026, up 5.82% year on year. Prices have recovered from their spring low, but the August producer price index remained 21.1% below the previous year.
Partnerships among entrepreneurs, farmers and industry are creating commercial demand for buckwheat in the United States, Forbes Brasil reports. The crop is being positioned as a way to restore soil and diversify farm rotations.
Two lawmakers from Entre Ríos have asked Argentina’s foreign minister for details on the stalled US approval of fresh Argentine oranges and mandarins. The industry estimates potential shipments at about 20,000 tonnes annually, worth more than US$20 million.
Gas quotations on the Romanian Commodities Exchange rose from 273.78 lei/MWh on 20 July 2026 to a peak of 511.18 lei/MWh in mid-September, and now sit near 460 lei/MWh, above the roughly 380 lei/MWh equivalent at the Baumgarten hub. Households are shielded by a price cap until March 2027, with Romgaz supplying more than 80% of residential demand at regulated prices. Industrial consumers remain fully exposed to European price formation.
Montenegrin authorities stopped nearly 103 tonnes of meat from Brazil and intensified controls on importer Apetit, according to KoSSev. The available source material does not identify the meat category, the reason for the intervention or the shipment’s final disposition.
Potato prices in Porto Alegre rose sharply before retreating, while farmgate returns remained volatile and often insufficient to cover investment. Excess rain is delaying planting in Rio Grande do Sul, and imported processed potatoes are adding pressure on Brazilian growers and processors.
The vice-president of the National Date Association of Iran, Hadi Moghadam, told a session at the Khorramshahr Chamber of Commerce that the date industry's production and export capacity could double within five years if management policies are revised and the production and processing chain is supported. He criticised past export bans, trading-card ceilings, currency repatriation rules and an increase in the customs export base value made without consulting the association. Most of Khuzestan province's date crop is sold abroad.
Johnvents Group told investors its Akure and Ile-Oluji plants processed 19,806 tonnes of cocoa in the first half of 2026, equal to 82% of combined capacity, up from 66% across 2025. Official NBS data still show Nigeria earning far more from raw beans than from cocoa butter, with first-quarter bean exports at 596.9 billion naira against 41.69 billion naira for butter.
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