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Tropical Storm Nate passed through Costa Rica in early October causing widespread damage to infrastructure and to agriculture.

MY 2017/18 milled rice production at 107.5 million metric tons (MMT) on lower than expected planting and yield due to suboptimal weather conditions during critical growth stages....

Nigeria’s wheat consumption continues to increase as prices of other major locally grown staples remain higher than those for wheat products.

FAS Amman (Post) forecasts Jordan’s wheat imports in MY 2017/18 to reach 1.1 million metric tons (MT).

The Czech Republic maintains a scientific approach towards biotechnology.

Export prices for the most part remain unchanged.

Post projects Argentine wheat production for 2017/18 at 16.8 million tons, 700,000 tons smaller than USDA due to a significantly lower harvested area. Excess rain during the planting and growing....

Under the auspices of the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, on October 23, 2017, Morocco’s state cereals office (ONICL) issued the second tender of calendar year 2017 to import 30,000 MT....

Post contacts confirmed recent press reports that Mexico has reached agreement on a phytosanitary protocol to import wheat from Argentina, and that one trial shipment is scheduled for later this year.

FAS/Astana estimates wheat production in Kazakhstan in MY 2017/2018 at 13.5 MMT, down nearly 10 percent from Post’s estimate of 14.99 MMT for 2016/17, due largely to a decline in planted area.

Total ethanol production for 2018 is forecast to grow on strong demand and policy support.

Export prices further declined 1 percent as supplies of MY2017/18 main crop white rice are reportedly entering the market.