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MY2016/17 sugar production is expected to remain relatively flat at 70,000 tons, which signals limited progress of Nigeria’s backward integration plans for sugar production.

FAS/Dar es Salaam forecasts that Tanzania’s coffee production will decrease to 1.15 million bags in MY 2016/2017 from 1.2 million bags in MY 2015/16 is due to the biennial bearing cycle.

Dairy Farmers are now in the second year of below breakeven farmgate milk prices and have cut the national dairy cow herd number over the last eighteen months by five percent to 4.9 million head.

Post estimates that the 2015/16 MY production of apples and pears will increase by about one percent to 930,000 MT and 410,000 MT, respectively...

FAS/Nairobi forecasts Kenya's coffee production to increase to 700 thousand bags in the marketing year (MY) 2016/2017 after a decrease in 2015/2016 that is attributed to the El Nino weather conditions

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a decrease in Uganda’s coffee production in the marketing year (MY) 2016/2017 to 3.7 million bags from a record 4.5 million bags production in the MY 2015/2016...

With increased processing capacity and better weather conditions expected to prevail, sugar production is forecast to climb to 370,000 metric tons in MY16/17 (May-Apr).

New Zealand deciduous fruit exports at 351,000 metric tons for MY2015/2016 are three percent greater than the previous forecast, because of an almost perfect growing season in the main growing region.

After a small decline in MY15/16 (Aug-Jul) because of the drought, cotton production is forecast to more than recover, reaching 207,000 bales (45,000 metric tons) in MY16/17.