Colombian coffee prices have hit their highest level in 11 years in the wholesale market, forcing leading brands in the US to announce increases in their retail prices of almost 20 per cent at a time when consumers are tightening their belts.

The Florida all orange forecast released today by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board is decreased 400,000 boxes to 157.6 million. If attained, this forecast will be 7% less than harvested in the 2007-08 season.

With soaring unemployment and a private sector still in troubled infancy, for the last few decades, government has provided the bulk of Kashmir’s jobs. Yet today this may be changing; on the heels of much-needed infrastructure development and,…

El 70% de la producción nacional tiene como destino el mercado externo. En 2008 se pagó u$s1.700 la tonelada. Actualmente el valor FOB ronda los u$s750. Desde el sector señalan que la situación es de total incertidumbre.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced more recalls involving possible contaminated pistachios produced by Setton Farms Inc. The California company last week expanded its nationwide recall of roasted shelled and in-shell pistachios…

Mozambican cashew nut processing factory, Macia Castanha Moçambique (MCM), located in Macia, in Mozambique’s Gaza province, expects this year to process 1,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, the factory’s owner said.

Michigan grows a third of all U.S. blueberries, but an increase in global production and South American imports are threatening to drive prices down sharply for this year’s crop. About 150 million tons of blueberries are now in storage nationwide,…

Exporters continue focusing to sell current crop for nearby shipments. However most of the demand is concentrated on new crop qualities for forward shipments. One of the largest roasters succeeded to obtain (MTGB GC Quality)…

Vietnam’s coffee production for the 2009-10 crop year could be affected by the unseasonal rains, but it’s too early to predict the extent of the damage this far from harvest, traders said Thursday. “The early rains have some impact on the crops…

California walnut brokers and growers, struggling to market a record-shattering 2008 harvest – nearly 160 million pounds of nuts more than the previous record – got a boost Tuesday from the federal school lunch program.

China is expected to dominate world markets in 2009 by producing 28.5 million tonnes of apples, says Desmond O’Rourke, Publisher, World Apple Report. Put into context, that’s seven times what the country produced in 1990.

More than 50,000 ha of processing tomatoes are grown and 600,000 ton ketchup are produced per year in Xinjiang province. It represents 80 per cent of the processed tomato output in China, and over 13 per cent globally…

Many processing plants are finishing the purchase of root vegetables and brassicas and they are preparing for the purchase of spinach.Last year the purchase of spinach in processing plants was started at the end of April.

L’euro affichait des gains solides jeudi face au dollar, après la baisse moins forte que prévu du taux directeur de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) et un rebond des marchés d’actions déclenché par les mesures du G20 pour relancer la croissance.

Le pétrole ont très nettement progressé ce jeudi alors que les principaux dirigeants mondiaux se sont mis d’accord pour octroyer 1.000 milliards de dollars supplémentaires au Fonds monétaire international et à la Banque mondiale, afin de combattre le ralentissement économique mondiale.

Guatemalan coffee exports in March, the sixth month of the current 2008-09 crop cycle, were down 14% to 460,075 bags of 60 kilograms each, the Guatemalan Coffee Association, Anacafe, said Wednesday.

The U.S. recall of pistachio nuts due to potential salmonella contamination widened as more snack makers and retailers removed their nuts from store shelves as a precautionary measure.

Nous avons passé la moitié des 4 semaines de risque de gel, sans avoir connu d’alerte et la météo reste favorable. Aussi, si la situation reste la reste la même dans les 10 jours à venir, on pourra considérer que le risque d’une récolte catastrophique (350 à 450 000t) sera écarté.