Since late March, amid concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of countries in the CIS area have implemented new policy measures in an effort to ensure sufficient domestic supplies [...]

On 25 March 2020, the Government of Viet Nam put a halt to the signing of new export contracts pending assurance of domestic supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision [...]

On 25 March, the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the guaranteed price of white maize for medium-scale farms (with land up to 50 hectares and a production volume [...]

On 12 March, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) fixed the minimum support price of wheat, which was increased, in line with recommendations of the Wheat Review Committee, to PKR 1 [...]

On 4 March, the Government announced further adjustments to the export tax regime through Decree 230/2020, after a revision already implemented in December 2019 (FPMA Food Policies), which saw export [...]

On 28 February, the Government raised the Minimum Purchasing Price (MPP) for early Indica rice from last year’s price of CNY 2 400 per tonne to CNY 2420 per tonne [...]

On 17 February, the Government published the new minimum guarantee prices for all wheat grain varieties and wheat seeds for the 2020/21 (July/June) agricultural season. Prices were increased by 6.95 [...]

Prices of the key food staple, maize meal, continued to generally increase in December and were at exceptionally high levels. The elevated prices mostly result from sustained currency weakness and [...]

Procurement of the 2020 main “Maha” paddy rice crop has recently commenced. The Government set the minimum guaranteed price at LKR 50 per kg (USD 276 per tonne) for rice [...]

Consumer prices rose by 14.6 percent year on year in January, the highest annual rate since December 2010. The high inflation rate was mainly driven by the significant increases in [...]