Middle East & Africa
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KAMPALA: Uganda's coffee exports are seen rising sharply in April to 270,000 60-kg bags from 141,220 bags during the same period last year, boosted by strong rainfall in key growing areas, the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said on Thursday."The crop in south western region is expected to be bigger than last year due to the favourable rainfall received," said a report by UCDA.The report also said UCDA is set to provide 20 million seedlings for planting in the ongoing rainy season, which is likely to boost future exports. Last month, Uganda shipped 311,290 60-kg bags, fetching $38 million. Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
RABAT: Moroccan state grains agency ONICL has bought 178,000 tonnes of loal soft wheat at 2,545 to 2,880 Moroccan dirhams ($290-$330) per tonne, a few days after issuing a tender to buy 160,000 tonnes of US durum wheat.Morocco has extended a freeze on a 17 percent import duty on soft wheat to April 31 to ensure a regular supply of the commodity to the domestic market after drought hit its local harvest last year. The ...
CAIRO: Egypt will receive payment facilities from American and European suppliers of wheat, an Egyptian newspaper on Saturday quoted minister of supplies Bassem Ouda as saying, as the world's biggest wheat importer struggles to pay for imports.Two years of turmoil since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak has badly hit an economy starved of tourism revenues and with a depreciating currency."American and European exporters of wheat will provide payment facilities to Egypt to import wheat ...
ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast fixed its government-guaranteed cocoa farmgate price at 700 CFA francs ($1.37) per kg for the April-to-Sept mid-crop harvest, down from a main crop price of 725 CFA francs per kg, the head of the country's marketing board said on Friday. "The guaranteed cocoa price is 700 francs per kilogramme," Lambert Kouassi Konan, chairman of the Coffee and Cocoa Council, told journalists in the commercial capital Abidjan. The world's top cocoa producer also ...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has issued a tender on Wednesday to buy a minimum of 50,000 tonnes of white sugar from all origins except India and Thailand, trade ministry said in a statement. Bidding deadline is April. 7 and offers must remain valid until April. 11.In its last reported sugar tender, Iraq bought 71,750 tonnes of white sugar from the United Arab Emirates. Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
ABIDJAN: Cocoa arrivals at ports in top grower Ivory Coast reached around 998,000 tonnes by March 17 since the start of the season in October, exporters estimated on Monday, compared with 1,025,000 tonnes in the same period of the previous season. The cummulative figure for the 2012/13 season was revised upward by 25,000 tonnes to take into account official arrivals data for the season to Dec. 31 released by the Coffee and Cocoa Council on ...
ABIDJAN: Cocoa arrivals at ports in top grower Ivory Coast reached around 954,000 tonnes by March 10 since the start of the season in October, exporters estimated on Monday, compared with 1,015,000 tonnes in the same period of the previous season. Exporters estimated around 15,000 tonnes of beans were delivered to the West African state's two ports of Abidjan and San Pedro between March 4 and 10, up from 10,000 tonnes in the same week ...
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