Italy has asked for EU agricultural reserve funds to support an olive oil sector facing falling producer prices, high costs and rising inventories. Italian stocks reached about 233,000 tonnes in July 2026, more than 40% above the level recorded a year earlier.
Spain’s lemon harvest is forecast to reach 1,214,600 tonnes in 2026/27, up 19% from the provisional 2025/26 total. Higher Fino and Verna output should expand fresh-market availability and return processing volumes to normal levels.
Government interventions in Kenya's tea sector since 2022 have raised green-leaf payments, export receipts and investment in smallholder factories, businesstoday.co.ke reports. Average farm-gate prices moved from about Sh35 per kilogramme in 2021 to Sh64 in 2024 before settling at Sh56 in 2025, while export value reached Sh186.9 billion. Growers say returns are still too low to cover household costs.
Lithuania’s average farmgate price for raw milk rose 2.0% month on month to €360.85 per tonne in August 2026. Procurement volumes also increased from July, but prices, volumes and producer numbers remained below their August 2025 levels.
Spain's citrus sector round table puts the initial 2026/27 crop estimate at 5,744,841 tonnes, 1.1% above the previous campaign but 4.2% below the five-year average. Oranges fall 4.6% to 2.8 million tonnes, while lemons recover 21% to 991,800 tonnes and grapefruit sets a third consecutive record above 110,000 tonnes.
South Korean beer exports increased 30.6% even as domestic consumption declined. Major brewers are responding by expanding their own brands in overseas markets.
South Korea’s alcohol shipments fell below 3 million kilolitres in 2025 for the first time in 27 years. Producers are responding with lower-strength soju, alcohol-free beer and campaigns promoting moderate drinking and road safety.
The European Union will provide €1 million for a two-year project to strengthen Algeria’s organic farming rules, certification system and agricultural supply chains. Algeria currently has only 4,000 hectares under organic cultivation and exported slightly more than 3,000 tonnes of organic products to the EU in 2024.
Asti growers have harvested ripe, high-quality grapes in 2026 despite record heat. Full cellars and a saturated wine market are nevertheless forcing producers to restrict yields, limiting the commercial benefit of the favorable season.
Vietnamese raw-rice and fragrant broken-rice prices increased slightly in the Mekong Delta, while export quotations remained stable. The USDA expects Philippine rice imports to reach 5.7 million tonnes in 2027 as El Niño threatens domestic production.
ViniPortugal cannot include Port wine in its international promotion campaigns under Portugal’s current legal framework. The restriction comes as global wine consumption falls, inventories rise and Douro producers face weaker grape prices.
Nearly 7 billion litres of Indian ethanol production capacity currently has no clear market, according to Millennium Post. Producers are searching for new buyers, with exports and industrial demand the main alternatives to domestic fuel offtake. The imbalance also affects the sugar and grain markets that supply the sector's feedstock.
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