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Ethiopian wheat production for 2019/20 will reach a projected 4.6 million metric tons.

Serbia’s marketing year (MY) 2018/19 wheat crop was the largest since MY2016/17 and one of the largest in over twenty years at an estimated 3.4 million metric tons (MMT), compared to only....

The Government of Pakistan announced on March 18, 2019, a $2 billion, five-year agricultural plan that focuses on crop production diversification, but there are no details yet.

India is heading for third consecutive record wheat harvest with marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (April/March) production forecast at 100 million metric tons (MMT).

In January 2019, China approved five new genetically engineered traits and renewed the bio-safety certificates for 26 traits previously approved.

Post estimates Chilean wheat production in MY2018/19 to reach 1.51 MMT (million metric tons) considering a 3 percent increase in harvested area due to producers’ expectations of high prices.

Corn production is expected to reach 13.3 million tons in 2019/20, as Government incentives to expand production in non-traditional regions continue to yield results.

FAS Tel Aviv (Post) forecasts Israel’s imports of wheat in marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (July-June) to reach some 1.7 million metric tons (MMT), up 5.5 percent or increasing by 90,000 MT....

Post estimates South Africa will have to import about one million tons of corn in the 2018/19 MY on an estimated 20 percent decline in commercial production due to drought conditions.

On February 14, 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11203, converting quantitative restrictions on rice imports into tariffs.

Post expects MY 2019/20 corn imports to reach 4.15 million metric tons (MT), up 4 percent from the previous year, due to steadily growing demand for poultry feed.

On February 7, 2019, Japan notified the World Trade Organization that it was invoking a volume-based special safeguard on imports of cornstarch....