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In February 2016, Korea revised the Food Sanitation Act, expanding mandatory biotech labeling to include all products with detectable biotech ingredients.

The Australian federal government is very supportive of biotechnology and has committed considerable long-term funding to research and development.

Brazil is the world's second-largest producer of biotech crops. Post forecasts a 10-percent increase in area planted to biotech crops in the upcoming 2013/14 Brazilian crop year (October-September).

Organic farming in Bulgaria has thrived driven by improved export demand in the EU market, excellent production subsidies, and favorable governmental policy.

On July 3, 2016, Russia adopted FL 358-FZ, which prohibits the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants and the breeding of genetically engineered animals in the territory of the Russian...

Turkey published its Biosafety Law and implementing regulations in 2010. Ever since, this legislation has continued to disrupt Turkey’s agriculture and food sectors due to inharmonious procedures...

In December 2015, the Philippines Supreme Court (SC) enjoined Bt eggplant trials and struck down existing genetic engineering (GE) regulations so that a new set of rules could be promulgated.

On July, 26, 2016, The President of Cote d’Ivoire announced the implementation of the national biosafety law adopted by the parliament on July 1, 2016.

Mozambique is now in a position to start research trials of Genetically Engineered (GE) agricultural crops, after the Council of Ministers approved amendments to the Biosafety Regulations...

On December 8, 2016, the Ministry of Finance removed the import duty on wheat indefinitely from the earlier provision of 10 percent import duty effective till March 1, 2017.

Post’s marketing year (MY) 2015/16 wheat import estimate to Indonesia is revised from 7.6 to 8.9 million metric tons (MMT)..

The Government of Pakistan has set the wheat production target at a record 26 million metric tons for the 2016 Rabi (winter) season. Wheat area is not expected to change significantly from a year ago.