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Post organized the training schedule for a 12 member delegation from Pakistan who were part of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded capacity development program in South Africa...

Over the past two decades, steady economic growth and increased average income in South Africa resulted in the rapid expansion of meat consumption.

At 310,000 metric tons (MT), Ukraine’s beef production in 2016 is projected to be the lowest level since USDA started publishing official beef production estimates for Ukraine in 1988.

Bt corn and Bt cotton will likely be the first ever genetically modified crops to be cultivated in Kenya if the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) approves applications submitted...

Ethiopia released a summary of its forthcoming Livestock Master Plan (LMP), which is the governmental blueprint for directing the continued transformation of the country’s livestock sector

Ukraine intends to streamline its phytosanitary legislation through a set of norms intended to impose tighter deadlines for issuing quarantine certificates, ensuring pubic availability of information.

Ukraine is projected to produce around 102,000 metric tons (MT) of walnuts in marketing year (MY) 2015/16 remaining at essentially MY 2014/15 production levels.

As initially forecasted in April 2015, C3+2 countries produced 3.5 million bales (1.8 million tons) of seed cotton in MY2014/15 (Aug/July).

Despite a sharp fall in Ukraine’s GDP in 2015, broiler meat poultry production remained stable and is projected to increase 2 percent to 995,000 metric tons (MT) in 2016.

The purpose of this report is to inform U.S. companies about the export opportunities offered by various health-oriented markets in South Africa.

The Government of Cote d’Ivoire having finally adopted the Cartagena Protocol in June 2015, is drafting the biosafety law for Parliament approval.