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Mozambique’s agricultural sector is characterized mainly by subsistence farming, with commercial lands focusing mainly on sugar, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts.

Recent tight domestic corn supplies have resulted in higher import demand for feed wheat.

Despite a protracted legal suit against the release into the environment and commercialization of GE products on the Ghanaian market, positive strides have been notched.

Export prices declined slightly due to continued weakening of Thai baht currency and pressure from the competition of Vietnamese rice.

Since last reported in GAIN, South Africa has not finalized issues related to its concerns over the trade measures that stop exports of U.S. poultry, beef, and pork.

Export prices declined 1 percent mainly due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Post forecasts that the 2015/16 MY raisin production will decrease by thirteen percent to 55,000 MT, following the record level raisin production of 63,000 MT in the 2014/15 MY.

Export prices declined 1 percent due to continued weakening of Thai baht and lack of inquiries. Traders are awaiting the result of public tender for around 0.7 million metric tons issued on August 10.

The production area of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in South Africa was unchanged in 2014, at 2.9 million hectares, making South Africa the ninth largest producer of GE crops in the world...

Export prices for most grades of rice are basically unchanged from the previous week except for fragrant rice.

The Government of Ethiopia (GOE) recently amended its Biosafety Proclamation with the intent of permitting the future cultivation of biotech cotton to meet the rising demands from the textile industry

For the 2015/16 MY, post forecasts that South Africa will return to be a net exporter of about 1.5 million tons of corn, as commercial production is expected to exceed 12.0 million tons...