Agriculture

• Sunday, September 4th 2011 - 23:31 UTC

  Blockaded by Argentina, Falkland’ plans to grow its own vegetables and eggs

  

  A quarter of million pounds (approximately 400.000 dollars) is to be used to produce more fruit, vegetables, salad and hen eggs within the Falkland Islands. The Executive Council (ExCo) agreed the funding which is to be administered by the Development Corporation (FIDC) in a bid to reduce the amount of imports into the Islands.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  US grain farmers furious with Argentina and Canada advance in the Colombia market

  

  Argentina has rapidly displaced the US as the main supplier to Colombia of corn and in near future wheat, with volumes soaring from 99.000 tons in 2007 to over 2.2 million tons currently, points out Agrimoney.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 08:40 UTC

  Freezing weather reduces Brazil’s sugar crop estimate

  

  Sugar output in Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter, will unexpectedly fall this year after freezing weather pared crop yields, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Brazil’s main producer of soy beans is the Argentine group El Tejar

  

  Guess who is the main producer of soy beans in Brazil, the country that is the world’s second exporter of oilseed behind the United States?, a Brazilian, no an Argentine group.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina expected to approve the use of Bayer GM soy-seeds

  

  Mercosur full member Argentina this week is expected to approve the use of genetically-modified soy seeds made by German company Bayer as part of its push to increase farm production, a top Argentine official said on the weekend.

• Saturday, August 20th 2011 - 06:21 UTC

  Corn boom forecasted in Argentina as the grain most resilient to quotas’ system

  

  Argentina is undergoing a “corn planting boom” because of its more diversified market opportunities which help to ease the full impact of the export quotas system imposed by the government of Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, August 18th 2011 - 22:51 UTC

  Rousseff names new Agriculture minister and respects balance in cabinet

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff named on Thursday lawmaker Mendes Ribeiro as new Minister of Agriculture. The member of Congress from the farming state of Rio Grande do Sul replaces Wagner Rossi who stepped down Wednesday following strong allegations of corruption and irregularities.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2011 - 23:42 UTC

  La Niña threatens Brazil and Argentina crops says Oil World

  

  South American grain and oilseed production may be in jeopardy from the formation of a La Niña weather pattern, which might curb rainfall in parts of Brazil and Argentina, Oil World said.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Mozambique offers Brazilian farmers 6 million hectares to develop agriculture

  

  The Mozambique government is providing large tracts of land at a symbolic price to Brazilian farmers to produce soy, maize and cotton, Mozambique’s agriculture minister, José Pacheco told Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2011 - 06:19 UTC

  China wants to buy directly from Brazilian farmers, avoid intermediation

  

  China, the second-largest buyer of soy in the world wants an end to intermediation by US multinational companies working in the sector and plans to invest purchasing directly from farmers in Mato Grosso and another five states in Brazil, according to the Brazilian press.