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The African Union Commission (AUC) recently launched a continental SPS Committee to assist member states in their efforts to protect human, animal and plant health.

The wheat production estimate for MY14/15 is revised downward from the official USDA estimate by 600,000 metric tons to 3.8 million metric tons.

Export prices further declined 1 to 2 percent as supplies of new off-season rice continue coming into the market.

Export prices declined 2 to 3 percent due to rumors of large sales of government stocks and the weakening Thai baht over the past week.

MY2015/16 rice and corn production is expected to increase slightly due to average yield improvement that will offset anticipated acreage reduction.

South Africa’s net trade in corn is expected to decrease from 2.0 million tons to 100,000 tons in the 2014/15 MY, due to a mid-summer drought that hit the main corn producing areas.

The passage of a bio-safety bill has faced many hiccups in Nigeria, the country’s policy makers now appear to be set for the passage of the bill and subsequent executive assent.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

Post forecasts that the South Africa grape crop for wine production will decrease by two percent to 1.490 million tons in 2015, from the peak production of 1.520 million tons in 2014.

Export prices continued to decline around 1 percent in anticipation of higher-than-expected sales of government rice stocks.

Export prices declined around 1 percent in anticipation of sales of government stocks in the public tender for 1 million metric tons of white rice.

The Thai Cabinet increased domestic palm oil supplies for cooking by at least 110,000 metric tons in February 2015 thru imports and a reduction in biodiesel mandates.