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- On August 25, the Government, in agreement with millers, retailers and grain traders, introduced a cap on maize grain prices at ZWK 2 600 (USD 198) [...]
- 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 [...]
- The Government of Morocco announced that it will maintain the reduced 30 percent import duty on common wheat, set to expire at the end of April, [...]
- On 17 July, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Government of Pakistan imposed a ban on the exports of wheat and wheat flour. Below-average irrigation [...]
- On 1 April 2022, the Government of Kazakhstan announced plans to introduce temporary quotas on wheat and wheat flour exports, with effect from 15 April to [...]
- On 31 May 2018, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Sagarpa) increased the 2018 support prices for maize, sorghum and rice by [...]
- The Government began on August 22 procurement buying of the 2016 secondary Yala paddy crop, it allocated LKR 4.6 billion (USD 31 million) to purchase 120 [...]
- The European Union (EU) has reinstated an import duty on maize, which was zero since November 2014. The decision was triggered by low prices in the [...]
- On 8 November, the Government doubled the import duty on wheat to 20 percent, after reintroducing it in March this year (FPMA Food Policies). The measure [...]
- The Government announced that it would put 1 million tonnes of rice from the state reserves to sale through two auctions on 29 and 30 August. [...]