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Food Drink Ireland has launched a new report highlighting the importance of the food and beverage sector to Ireland and the main strategic challenges and opportunities to be considered by policymakers.
Korea has agreed to include a 408,700-tonne tariff-rate quota for rice imports from the US, Australia, China, Thailand and Vietnam in its World Trade Organization Schedule.
With difficulties such as the brown marmorated stink bug hitting the Italian pear market, the supply chain is to gather together to focus on new commercial opportunities for the industry.
Data released by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) said that there is a “great deal of uncertainty” around approximately a tenth of England's potato crop as farmers review the damage of the flooding.
China banned all US poultry in January 2015 due to an avian influenza outbreak in December 2014, despite the fact that the US has been officially free of the disease since August 2017.
Good harvests have reportedly created an imbalance between supply and demand on the EU olive oil market, resulting in a fall in prices. In an attempt to re-balance the market, the European Commission has adopted private storage aid for virgin olive oils.
Export prices rise for wheat, maize, sugar and palm oil, but decline for cheese, poultry and sunflower oil, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
According to a new report, the global food safety testing market is anticipated to grow due to the worldwide increase in the number of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.
The UK craft spirits industry has filed a record number of trade mark registrations, rising 12 percent in the past year compared to the year before.
Food experts globally predict a decline in employment, consumer confidence and international trade in their respective countries over the next six months.
According to IHS Markit’s Agribusiness Intelligence, global demand for ketchup is weakening, with countries such as Mexico, Japan, Saudi Arabia and South Korea reducing their intake from the US.
The joint venture of Puratos and Estonian Malt aims to optimise production processes, improve packaging and shelf-life and collaboratively develop new product ranges.
Cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana have said that chocolate makers will continue to be allowed to run sustainability schemes in their countries, after recent threats put their futures at risk.
Olam International Ltd has announced that it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire a 100 percent interest in Californian almond processor and ingredient manufacturer Hughson Nut Inc (HNI).
Montanya Distillers CEO, Karen Hoskin, has said women have seen progress in the alcohol industry, but investments remain low.
