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The UAE’s overall consumption of grain and feed is projected to grow nearly 6 percent over the next year.

In MY2017/18, total raw sugar production is forecast to increase seven percent or 150,000 MT to reach 2.42 MMT. FAS Cairo attributes this increase to an expansion of total area harvested....

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.

Post forecasts MY 2017/18 production at 4.59 MMT for common wheat, 1.66 MMT for durum wheat, and 2.05 MMT for barley, representing a strong recovery from a disastrous 2016 crop....

In MY2017/18 wheat imports are forecast to reach 1.3 MMT. Barley consumption is expected to decrease by eight percent to 845 TMT, as ranchers reduce their herds due to a slowdown in demand....

Prospects for Algeria’s wheat and barley crop remain mostly average despite multiple bouts with dryness throughout the year and with the next 30 days being a critical period.

Following a mostly favorable growing season which set Tunisia up for a possibly substantial 2017 harvest, the wheat and barley crops have recently come under prolonged stress....

The Polish organic food market presents opportunity for further intensive development.

It is estimated that in MY 2017/2018 (July-June) rapeseed planted will amount to 920,000 hectares, an 11 percent increase in comparison to the previous year due to good prices for rapeseed....

Total production of rapeseed in MY 2017/18 is forecast to increase by 13 percent to 290,000 MT in comparison to MY 2016/2017.

Total production of rapeseed in MY 2017/18 is forecast to increase by 60 percent to 160,000 MT in comparison to record low in the last decade production in MY 2016/2017.

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