Results filtered by: consumer food prices
- The Government prolonged the duty exemption on maize shipments from non-Mercosur countries until 31 December this year. The duty had already been removed in late April [...]
- Domestic prices of rice remained stable in January in most exporting and importing countries, reflecting low trade activity, coupled with government procurement programmes that offset the [...]
- The Government increased the import duty on wheat from 20 percent to 30 percent on 24 May, which follows a 10-percentage-point rise in November last year [...]
- On 9 June 2021, the Government of India approved the increase of the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the 2021 “Kharif” main season crops, currently being [...]
- In early November, the Government announced the new purchasing prices for the 2019 wheat crop, which was set at TMT 800 (USD 222) per tonne. The [...]
- Price of wheat flour, the main staple in the country, have been increasing in the past few months and in December they reached record or near-record [...]
- Indonesia’s Government plans on procuring low quality rice from farmers in order to protect farmers’ incomes. The price of the lower quality will be set lower [...]
- Following the reduction of the 2014 main season cereal crops caused by drought, the Government authorized the tariff-free imports of 97 000 tonnes of rice and [...]
- On 17 June 2021, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved the import of 3 million tonnes of wheat during the 2021/22 marketing year (July/June). The measure, which follows [...]