Agriculture, Energy and Metal Information
Record high temperatures and drought have hit key grain-producing regions in northwest and east China during the crucial corn sowing season, threatening to curb production.Farmers in Shandong province are struggling to irrigate their parched corn fields, with one farmer having to collect water from a wastewater pipe.China, the world’s second-largest corn producer and top importer, […]
China has published new regulations to stabilize the production of beef cattle as the industry faces declining prices and heavy losses, the country’s agriculture ministry announced on Friday. The ministry noted that since the beginning of this year, the prices of live cattle and beef have continued to fall, leading to farms suffering losses and […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a policy challenge after losing ground in the recent election: how to control food inflation without resorting to export curbs and more imports, which have angered the country’s sizeable farming community, an important voting bloc. While Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to retain power in a coalition […]
In a move to further integrate Ukraine into the European Union’s economic space, Ukraine and the European Commission have agreed to extend their freight liberalisation agreement for another year. According to Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, the agreement allows Ukrainian cargo to enter the EU market permit-free, with the possibility of an automatic extension until […]
In a remote, forested region of Indonesia’s Papua province, the indigenous Awyu tribe is engaged in a high-stakes legal battle against major palm oil companies over the fate of their ancestral lands. At the center of the dispute is a vast 270,000-hectare palm oil concession bloc, divided into seven separate concessions. Three of these concessions […]
China’s soybean imports saw a significant shift in May, with a substantial increase in supplies from the United States contrasting with a drop in arrivals from Brazil, the dominant supplier. According to data from China’s General Administration of Customs, the world’s biggest soybean buyer imported 1.27 million metric tons of the oilseed from the U.S. […]
The surging global demand for copper, driven by the transition to electric vehicles and clean energy, has led to a startling growth in the number of trucks carrying copper from illegal mines in Peru. This has created major traffic problems and hazardous conditions along the country’s key “mining corridor” highway. According to industry sources, the […]
Australian authorities have announced the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a commercial poultry egg farm near Sydney. The H7N8 strain of the virus was found, which is different from the H7N3, H7N9, and H5N1 strains detected in neighboring Victoria state. According to New South Wales state Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty, the detection is […]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has announced that India is likely to receive below-normal rainfall during the crucial month of June, raising concerns for the country’s agricultural sector. The monsoon rains, which are critical to the economic growth of Asia’s third-largest economy, typically begin in the south around June 1 and spread nationwide by July […]
According to data from Ghana’s cocoa marketing board COCOBOD, the country’s graded and sealed cocoa purchases since the start of the 2023/24 season on September 1 stood at 412,833 metric tons as of May 23. This represents a 33.7% decline from the 623,109 tons recorded by the same point last season. Graded and sealed cocoa […]