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The Saudi food processing sector has rapidly grown in recent years, thanks to various government subsidies to food companies, rising per capita income, and major demographic and socio-economic changes

In MY2014/2015, Egypt’s total planted area to citrus will remain unchanged while total area harvested will increase by 1.7 percent due to better growing conditions.

French wheat exports to Algeria decreased by almost 47 percent due to a lack of available quality and quantity, opening Algeria to exports from Poland and Germany.

Post forecasts Israel’s MY 2014/15 (October-September) citrus production at 604 thousand metric tons (TMT), up nearly 17 percent from MY2013/14.

In 2013, the number of food retail outlets in Saudi Arabia was estimated at 40,435 stores, an increase of 15 percent over their number in 2012.

Burger King's possible return to Israel; New Israeli Food Law; Reform to the Tariff Rate Quota Allocation System.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) recently announced that it supports the creation of new dairy cattle farms and importing 90,000 dairy cattle in the near future.

Post estimates Morocco’s total citrus production for MY2014/15 at 1.70 million MT, a decline of 23 percent compared to the exceptional production registered in MY 2013/14.

The hotel, restaurant and institutional (HRI) food service sector in Saudi Arabia has been rapidly growing in the past decade.

In the last few years, Morocco’s food distribution system has seen significant changes with the expansion of retail food outlets and the opening of new supermarket stores.

U.S. food and agricultural product exports to Saudi Arabia reached a record-high level of $1.425 billion in FY 2014, an increase of 24 percent over the previous year.

In 2013, imports of food and agricultural products by Israel totaled nearly $5.5 billion, a 3.6 percent increase from 2012.