Belarus has sold barley abroad through exchange trading for the first time, according to state news agency BELTA. The seller was a domestic producer of animal feed and feed additives, and the buyer a Russian wholesaler of grain, seeds and animal feed. Volume, price and delivery terms were not disclosed.
Six sugar plants in Russia's Lipetsk region have processed 1.2 million tonnes of beet from the 2026 crop, producing 153,000 tonnes of sugar and 102,000 tonnes of beet pulp as of 30 September. Digestion stands at 16.59% and sugar yield at 14.17%, while growers have harvested 26% of 118,500 hectares. Retail sugar in the region has risen from 65 to 76 rubles a kilogram.
Rice prices in Indonesia rose simultaneously at the milling, wholesale and retail levels in September 2026, with premium grades posting the steepest gains. State logistics agency Bulog is preparing an additional 1 million tonnes of subsidised SPHP rice, distributed without an order quota cap through Agrinas Pangan, to counter El Nino, the lean season and KDKMP demand.
Indonesian consumer prices rose 0.30% in September 2026, driven mainly by chili and broiler chicken, according to finance.detik.com. Red bird's eye chili reached Rp105,450 per kilogram on 1 October, up 9.79% in a day, while curly red chili jumped 17.02% to Rp81,150. Trade offices in Palembang and Padang are monitoring markets after crop failures in supplying districts.
Indonesian milk production meets just 20 percent of national requirements, with the rest covered by imports, according to money.kompas.com. The same report says Grati cattle are being positioned as the mainstay for raising domestic output. No target volume, herd size or timeline has been published.
Víctor Catán Dabike, president of Chile's fruit growers' federation FEDEFRUTA, has set out a projection for the coming cherry season and urged producers to tighten packing control, according to latribuna.cl. Water security was named alongside them as a principal challenge for the sector. No volume or value figures were attached to the projection.
Cameroon improved its global rankings for natural rubber, cocoa paste and bananas in 2025, even as total export revenue fell 5.2% and volumes declined 10.7%. Cocoa paste recorded the clearest expansion, while conflicting rubber and banana datasets complicate the assessment of underlying trade performance.
LG Electronics is building an air-cooled chiller plant in Windsor, Virginia, and adding production lines at its Pyeongtaek and Changwon factories in South Korea, with total investment of 150 billion won. The Virginia site is due to start production in the first half of next year and will supply cooling equipment to AI data centres. Omdia expects global data-centre power capacity to rise from 226 GW this year to 420 GW by 2030.
Crude benchmarks opened Asian trading almost unchanged as investors weighed the prospect of a diplomatic thaw between the United States and Iran, Indonesian business outlet Beritasatu reported. The second variable under watch is how fast Iranian export volumes could recover. Neither scenario is priced with conviction, leaving prices in a holding pattern.
Sunflower seed slipped another 4 euros to 487 euros per tonne DAP Constanta on Monday, 28 September, extending the previous week's 10-euro decline. Turkey, one of Romania's main buyers, still needs around 1.8 million tonnes of imported sunflower seed according to USDA, and roughly 400,000 tonnes have already been contracted for September-November with a focus on western Black Sea suppliers.
Italy's recreational boating industry closed 2025 with all-time high revenue of €8.72 billion, up 1.4% on 2024, according to figures presented in Genoa ahead of the 66th International Boat Show. Shipbuilding exports also hit a record €4.4 billion, while Italy holds 568 superyacht orders, 52% of the global total. Outboard craft, inflatables and sail contracted for a second consecutive year.
Italian Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin travelled to Algiers for the second Pentaministerial meeting on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor and held a bilateral with Algerian Energy Minister Mourad Adjal. Rome frames the planned North Africa–Europe hydrogen link as part of its Mattei Plan and as a route to 2050 climate neutrality. No volumes, routing or investment figures were disclosed.
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