The Ukrainian government and traders have agreed to limit to 1.2 million tonnes the milling wheat that will be exported between January and June 2015. More specifically, the sale of [...]

Sri Lanka's new government decided to release imported rice stocks before the forthcoming harvest of the 2015 main season “maha” rice crop in February/March 2015. The government imported around 100 [...]

The Government of India decided to revise the buffer norms for rice and wheat in the Central Pool (food grains stocks procured by Central Government and State Governments through minimum [...]

The Government of Indonesia has decided to increase the "Government Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (HPP)" - Government Rice Purchasing Price -  by 10 percent to IDR 7 260 per kilogram (around [...]

Russia, the world’s fourth- biggest wheat exported, introduced taxes on wheat export to reduce food prices after the ruble’s collapse made it attractive for farmers to sell grains abroad. The [...]

Mexico will reinstate its import tariffs on paddy and rice from January 9th 2015 in order to promote production, processing and marketing of domestic rice and thus strengthen the competiveness [...]

Sri Lanka will import 50,000 tonnes of rice from Bangladesh with immediate effect with the aim to control the escalating price of rice, the staple food in the country, in [...]

The Government of Thailand has decided to increase the lending budget of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to around 34.8 billion baht (or USD 1.06 billion) from [...]

As a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and the European Union over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia imposed its own sanctions against imported [...]

Bulog, the state procurement agency of Indonesia, announced its intention to purchase 3.2 million tonnes of rice from domestic farmers in 2015, unchanged from the previous year, to build-up boost [...]