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Global food prices to rise this decade

A major international report has predicted that average food commodity prices will be much higher this decade than the last. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have projected maize costs will be almost 20% higher this.....

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India 9th Biggest Grape Producer in World

With an industry less than 20 year old, India has not yet made a mark in the wine industry in the world but it is already the ninth biggest producer of grapes including the eating grapes with an estimated crop of 18.8 million quintals of grapes in 2010, according to Federico Castellucci, Director General of OIV, while.....

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Ukrainian processors start purchasing cucumbers

The cucumber procurement season started at Ukraine's processing enterprises this week. For the present, the information about real purchase of raw produce arrive from not many of them, as cucumber prices are rather high now (UAH 2-3/kg – EUR 0.18-0.27/kg), and supply of field-grown cucumbers is not.....

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UK - Meat labeling

The majority of meat and dairy products now feature information on where their ingredients came from or where they were produced, according to research announced by Food Minister Jim Paice. The survey looked at labels on over 500 meat and dairy products purchased from the major retailers and a number of.....