Agriculture

• Wednesday, March 27th 2024 - 19:28 UTC

  Brazil and France sign key deals during Macron's visit

  

  Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Emmanuel Macron launched Tuesday in Belém a € 1 billion investment bioeconomy program for the Brazilian Legal Amazon as well as for the part of the Amazon within French Guiana to raise funds through public and private investments over the next four years, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, March 25th 2024 - 20:29 UTC

  Rice harvest in Uruguay expected to generate US$ 700 million in exports

  

  It's rice harvest time in Uruguay, and the country expects to collect over a million tons of the cereal which is enjoying a favorable international prices prospect since the world's main exporter India, has dropped out of the market. The production of Uruguay's 150,000 hectares of rice paddies are expected to bring in close to US$ 700 million in exports this year, which will be higher than the US$ 550/600 million from the 2023 harvest.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Yerba mate producers from Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil join forces

  

  Growers from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Tuesday launched the South American Federation of Yerba Mate Producers “to protect and promote” their activity and work toward its “worldwide dissemination,” it was announced in Buenos Aires. The founders of the new guild highlighted mate's value as a natural and healthy food in the global market.

• Saturday, March 16th 2024 - 12:27 UTC

  Election time in EU; Green Deal measures are to be reviewed to try and quell farmers protests

  

  European Parliament elections are scheduled for next June, so the European Commission faced with growing protests from farmers and their marches on some of the main cities, Berlin, France and Brussels, has in response proposed concessions on climate and environmental measures.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 06:55 UTC

  New private port for grains trade along the Paraná

  

  The administration of Argentine president Javier Milei announced last week plans for a US$550 million investment to build a new port in the Rosario region, the country's major grains and oilseeds hub.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 18:35 UTC

  FTA negotiations between Japan and Mercosur to start next month, Paraguayan FM says

  

  The South American Common Market (Mercosur) will start negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Japan next month, Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano acknowledged in an interview with the Nikkei economic newspaper. Paraguay currently holds the rotating presidency of the regional bloc.

• Saturday, March 9th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

  Brazil leads the world in exports of seven food commodities

  

  Brazil has become the global leader in the export of at least seven food commodities, following on a report distributed by BTG Pactual to its clients this week.

• Friday, March 8th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

  No backtracking on Rule 1115, EU envoy tells Paraguayan producers

  

  European Union (EU) Environment Commission envoy Emanuele Pitto told Paraguayan exporters Thursday in Asunción that there would be no turning back from Rule 1115 banning raw materials and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation. The measure not allowing imports nor exports of these goods has been in force since June 29 last year.

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:53 UTC

  Falklands: confirmed case of avian influenza at Stanley Common

  

  The Falkland Islands Natural Resources Department has announced that on Monday 12 February 2024 swabs that were taken from a dead hawk found on Stanley Common were tested and returned positive for HPAI.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:11 UTC

  Avain flu had decimated UK Skuas, Gannets and Roseate Terns warns RSPB

  

  The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, RSPB has reported that a powerful bird the Great Skuas also known as “the pirate of the seas” for stealing other birds food, has declined dramatically because of avian flu.