On 6 April, the Government reduced the import tariff on wheat from ZAR 716.3 (USD 59.3) per tonne, in place since mid-December 2017, to ZAR 394.9 (USD 32.7). The 45 [...]

On 11 April, the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trading (MSIT) announced the new procurement prices for the 2018 wheat crop, to be harvested from mid-April. Prices range from USD [...]

The Ministry of Agriculture approved new prices for the purchasing interventions of the 2018 grain crop. The price of soft food quality wheat Class 1 was set at RUB 10 [...]

On 20 March, the Pakistani rupee (PKR) depreciated sharply against the US dollar (USD) closing down PKR 5 at PKR 115 per USD 1 in the interbank market, after the [...]

The state-run Grain Board of Iraq, under the Ministry of Trade, has recently announced the purchasing prices for the 2018 wheat crop. The price is of IQD 560 000 (as [...]

In early March, the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) introduced for the first time a basic floor price for rice, excluding high-grade varieties. The price for the 2018 low-quality paddy rice [...]

The Government launched the country-wide Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice on Sunday, 4 March. OMS is a public food distribution programme, which sells rice and wheat at subsidized prices. [...]

In early February, the Government reintroduced a ban on maize exports, which was lifted in late October following the bumper crop in 2017 (FPMA Food Policies). The re-implementation of the [...]

The National Development and Reform Commission set the minimum procurement prices for 2018 paddy crops at levels below those in 2017 (FPMA Food Policies).The price for early Indica paddy was [...]

On 21 January, the Central Bank of Sudan (CBS) devaluated the official exchange rate of the Sudanese Pound (SDG) against the US dollar from SDG 6.67 to SDG 18. The [...]