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Rice export prices remain unchanged as traders are waiting for the sale of the government retenders for the remaining rice stocks on August 29-30.

MY2018/19 rice and corn production should increase due to expanded acreage and favorable weather conditions.

Rice export prices declined around 1 percent due to a lack of new inquiries as traders are awaiting the results of the last government rice tenders in 2018.

Rice export prices increased 2 to 3 percent in anticipation of new white rice demand from China.

Rice export prices further increased 1 to 2 percent due to the demand for white rice from China and the Philippines.

Germany is the third-largest importer of cherries in the world after China and Hong Kong. From 2014 to 2017, between 54 and 74 percent of the cherries consumed in Germany were imported....

On July 13, 2018, The Ministry of Public Health Notification No. 388 Re: Prescribed Prohibited Food to be Produced, Imported, or Sold, which bans partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)....

Rice export prices declined 1 percent due to the lack of new inquiries. Exporters are reportedly fulfilling pending shipments of white rice to the Philippines and Africa.

Domestic and export rice prices remain unchanged. Exporters are currently fulfilling pending rice shipments to Africa and the Philippines.

In the absence of a legally binding maximum level for cadmium in sunflower kernels, Germany applies a non-binding “guideline value” published by the former Federal Institute for Health Related....