Exports

Italian Packaging Technology Industry To See ‘Record’ Revenue In 2023

The Italian packaging technology industry expects revenue growth of 6% year on year to €9.05 billion, according to preliminary figures from MECS - Uci...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Output Seen Lower As Swollen Shoot Disease Spreads

Ivory Coast's cocoa production for the 2023/24 season is expected at 1.75 million metric tonnes compared with a previous forecast in September of 1.8 milli...

Ivory Coast Halts Sales Of 2024/25 Cocoa Contracts, Citing Supply Squeeze

Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator, the Cocoa-Coffee Council (CCC), has halted sales of cocoa export contracts for the 2024/25 season due to concerns about low...

Dry Soil To Curb Asia's Early 2024 Rice Output, Pressure Supply

Asian off-season rice production is poised to take a hit as dry planting conditions, shrinking reservoirs and forecasts for continued El Nino weather are s...

Wine Production In Portugal To Reach Highest Level In Two Decades

Wine production in Portugal is expected to reach 7.3 million hectolitres in 2023, the highest since 2006.

France Reports Bird Flu On Turkey Farm As Disease Spreads In Europe

France has detected an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu virus on a turkey farm in the northwest of the country, the agriculture ministry said, as a s...

Ukrainian Grain Pushes Romania's Constanta Port To Record Volume

Romania's Black Sea port of Constanta shipped a record 29.4 million metric tonnes of grain in the first 10 months of this year, with supply from Ukraine ac...

South Africa's Citrus Exports Flat As Infrastructure Woes Sour Season

South Africa's citrus exports remained flat during the 2023 season, missing an industry target as the country's electricity and logistics problems worsened...