The country’s rice exports could plummet by 27 percent this year. The Vietnam Food Association has revised down its full-year forecast for rice exports twice this year, attributing the downturn to a lack of demand from key markets and Thailand’s sales of its massive stockpiles. Export volume, including sales across the border to top buyer… Read More »
KARACHI – Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) Chairman Mahmood Moulvi has emphasized on increasing bilateral trade with the United States, especially in agriculture sector. “Pakistan exports good quality rice to the US and still there is a good potential to increase market share there,” he said in his speech to welcome United States’ Consul… Read More »
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A (MSC) considers the the 8th World Rice Conference, in Thailand is a perfect opportunity to meet customers, detail our enhanced offering for the commodity, and provide further information about our weekly services to major rice cargo destinations around the world, including Africa Continent, USA, East and West Mediterranean, Red Sea and… Read More »
Farmers in Vietnam are allowed to use the active chemicals found by the U.S. in the rejected rice shipments. There is growing concern that Vietnamese rice exports may be banned by the United States in the wake of a series of pesticide residue violations. In the first four months of this year, the United States… Read More »
Vietnam, one of the largest producers and exporters of rice in the world, and one that comes under frequent suspicion of violating World Trade Organization obligations, is under new scrutiny for violating U.S. food safety regulations. Between January and August of this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected 95 shipping containers of jasmine… Read More »
Egypt said it plans to build a six-month reserve of essential food items, adding to other recent purchases of commodities such as oil and wheat, in what traders said was a move to build up stocks ahead of a currency devaluation. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said late on Tuesday the country would look to import… Read More »
The ministry asked local exporters to inspect and carefully assess residues of pesticide in rice shipped to the United States to avoid future problems, reported Vietnam’s state-run news agency VNA on Wednesday. According to the ministry, while inspecting Vietnam’s rice exports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found Vietnamese rice had eight active chemical… Read More »
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has ordered Viet Nam’s rice exporters to closely control the quality of rice exported to the US, after some exports were rejected. — Photo danviet.vn HÀ NỘI – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has required Việt Nam’s rice exporters to closely control the quality… Read More »
The U.S. rejected 1,700 tons of rice from Vietnam during January-April. Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to temporarily put on hold exports of rice to the U.S. due to pesticide residue issues. The decision was made after the U.S. discovered high levels of pesticide residue in shipments of Vietnamese rice, the… Read More »
The United States supporting Pakistan’s agriculture and dairy sectors to improve the potential and capacity of both the sectors. Both sectors play significant role in country’s economy and development. This was expressed by Kirk Shirley, Senior Program Manager Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) for trade capacity building programs in South Asia & Beyond. The two major… Read More »