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Post forecasts China’s MY2015/16 raisin production at 190,000 tons, an increase of 5 percent over USDA’s MY2014/15 official estimate.

Post forecasts China’s MY 2015/16 inshell walnut production at one million metric tons, an increase of 11 percent over MY 2014/15...

In January 2015, the government announced efforts to boost potato production and transform the crop into the country's fourth major “grain” after rice, wheat and corn.

Post forecasts China’s 2016 pork consumption at 57 million tons, a slight decrease from USDA’s 2015 official forecast.

China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine announced that starting October 1, 2015, AQSIQ will adopt an upgraded registration filing management system.

This annual report reviews the development of China’s food industry in 2013 and 2014 and examines the trends of the food processing industry, as well as prospects of some U.S. ingredients...

MY15/16 cotton production is forecast down to 5.5 million tons. This forecast is based on 19 percent fall in planted area in response to the lower government’s price support for cotton planting.

China is a major producer of biofuels and production continues to increase.

The low price of soybeans is expected to push China’s soybean imports to a record 76 million tons in MY14/15, up from the 70.4 million tons in the previous year.

China’s E-commerce market surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest E-commerce market in 2013.

China banned imports of all poultry and poultry products from the United States in January 2015 due to high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in the United States.

The United States is the world’s top exporter of processed potato products. Over the past decade those exports have grown 127 percent, reaching a record $1.5 billion in 2014...