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The Turkish Grain Board (TMO) completed a corn import tender on April 19, 2017. TMO purchased about 77,000 MT of corn to be sourced from the European Union (EU) and Serbia in the tender.

The Turkish government’s 2017 young farmers’ program subsidies will be granted to the livestock sector including cattle, sheep and goat, poultry, beekeeping....

The EU sweetener market will take a new start after the end of the 50 year old EU sugar quota production system on October 1, 2017, and will probably face a period of increased market volatility.

Lower polarity rates in the last two harvest seasons in Turkey and unchanged sugar quotas led to a substantial increase in sugar imports in 2015.

This report contains information about Bulgaria’s fish and seafood market.

Bulgarian farmers are expanding the planted areas under oilseed crops in the new season MY2017/18 led by sunflower seeds.

On March 13, 2017, the European Commission presented its long awaited report examining whether mandatory nutrition labeling requirements should be extended to alcoholic beverages....

Post forecasts 18 MMT of wheat production and a planting area of 7.82 million ha in MY 2017/18. Post forecasts corn planting area at 550,000 ha and production at 5.5 MMT for MY 2017/18.

The EU28’s grain harvest is forecast to rise three percent in MY2017/18 despite little change to the planted area.

Total EU-28 oilseeds production for marketing year (MY) 2015/16 is expected to decline by about 9 percent to 32 million metric tons (MMT).

In January 2016, Turkey’s Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock added new categories to their genetic requirements which broadened the variety of genetics which can be imported to Turkey.