AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoFood Security & Policy: Indonesia says El Niño won’t derail food security, pointing to Bulog rice reserves (5.24M tons) plus feed corn, cooking oil, sugar and chicken stocks. Trade & Farmer Protests: India’s farmers are again massing at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border for a Delhi march against the India-US trade deal, with police barricades and bridge fencing reported. Crop Production & Markets: The US raised its forecast for Russia’s sunflower seed harvest to 20.7M tons and expects Russian sunflower oil exports to hit 5M tons; in Ukraine, Kernel cut oilseed processing 32% in Q4 as sunflower seed supply tightened. Pest & Input Innovation: UK agri-biotech BugBiome won a £500k Innovate UK grant to develop a biological insecticide targeting cabbage stem flea beetle in oilseed rape. Seed & Quarantine: Kazakhstan plans quarantine certificates for interregional shipments and expands lab capacity; Russia’s Rosselkhoznadzor will audit three Israeli seed-production labs. Agri-Industry & Jobs: New Zealand’s Marton Maltings is set to close in September, raising concerns for grain growers and local workers. Sustainable Farming: Bristol’s Ponda secured a €2.76M DEFRA grant for wetland farming of typha to support peatland regeneration and a biomaterials supply chain. Food Safety: The Taylor Farms cyclospora-linked lettuce recall continues to ripple through US retail and shoppers are turning to local farms for leafy greens.
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