Workers at Yancoal Australia's Premier Coal operation have rejected a proposed pay agreement and set strike action, MarketScreener reported on 2 October 2026. The report disclosed no terms, vote margin or strike dates, leaving the commercial impact on one of Australia's listed thermal and metallurgical coal producers unquantified.
Coffee Board data show Indian coffee exports rose 25% year on year to more than 242,000 tonnes in the first half of the fiscal year, from 193,000 tonnes. Export earnings grew just 10% to $1.17 billion as global price swings compressed realisations. Instant coffee supplied most of the volume gain, rising 25.5% to 134,000 tonnes.
South Korean onion growers are facing sharply lower farm-gate prices even though this year's crop came in larger. Statistics Korea puts the planted area at roughly 17,600 hectares, slightly below last season, but favourable growing conditions lifted yields and total output. Harvest-period shipments to market rose faster still, pushing supply above consumption.
Sri Lanka’s merchandise exports declined 1% year on year to $1,269.49 million in August 2026, EconomyNext reported. Lower exports of apparel, tea and coconut products weighed on the monthly result.
Serbia harvested between 3.8 million and 3.966 million tonnes of wheat, with preliminary official data showing annual growth of 7.7%. Exports fell from about 120,000 tonnes in July to 90,000 tonnes in August as low Danube water levels and railway works raised transport costs.
Retail potato prices in Russia rose 35.3% over twelve months to 59.1 rubles per kilogram, with wholesale up almost 39%, making potatoes the fastest-rising food product. The new harvest has already pulled prices down 13.5% in September, but the Ministry of Agriculture expects a crop of about 8 million tonnes, half a million tonnes below last year.
Belarus raised minimum allowable export prices on certain agricultural products from 16 September 2026, requiring open contracts to be renegotiated. The Foreign Ministry also approved the procedure for exempting goods from the temporary industrial export ban, valid until 22 March 2027, while medicine price ceilings rose for only three products.
Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España forecasts wine and must production of around 34 million hectolitres, the fourth consecutive campaign below 37 Mhl. The shortfall comes as world output is estimated at about 222 Mhl, against roughly 294 Mhl in 2018. The cooperative sector is also pressing Brussels to automate labelling waivers for wines exported outside the EU.
El Nino weather is disrupting sugar harvests in Brazil, India and Thailand, the world's three largest producers, threatening to turn an expected global surplus into a deficit. Raw sugar futures have risen more than 25% since July, and hedge funds have built their most bullish position in years.
Mexico's government is working to increase sales of eight food products to the European Union, the daily Milenio reported. The list covers coffee, avocado, berries, mango, papaya, lemon, banana and honey. No volume targets, timelines or priority member states were specified.
Iran's Mazandaran province has shipped 6,375 tonnes of kiwifruit and tangerines abroad in 294 consignments, the head of the provincial Agricultural Jihad Organisation said. Russia took 2,788 tonnes of tangerines, while kiwifruit went mainly to India and Uzbekistan.
Ecuador's rice industry expects to export 60,000 tonnes of milled rice by the end of September 2026, driven by the reopening of the Colombian market, according to Corpcom president Juan Pablo Zúñiga. Lower yields from high temperatures and a cost disadvantage versus Peru and Mercosur are pushing the sector toward productivity gains and storage investment.
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