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FUTURE FARMING THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…
WTO ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROBLEM for farmers when considering how to influence international negotiations that are as long, complicated and important as the scheduled five years of discussions over updating the World Trade Organisation’s agriculture agreement, is knowing when to spend money on lobbyists to intervene.…
EU DUTIES AND TACS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to reduce total allowable catch (TAC) quotas for EU fishermen trawling for redfish and flatfish in Faroe Islands waters, because of an earlier decision to block Faroese fishermen from taking blue whiting from EU waters.…
THAI SUGAR
BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S artificially low domestic retail sugar prices may rise for the first time in four years to cushion the impact of rising production costs, according to the country’s Cane and Sugar Board. The current price is Baht 14.25 (37US cents).…
RUSSIA ICE CREAM
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S biggest ice cream producer Russky Kholod will launch a factory in Moscow with a projected output of 2,000 metric tons per month in 2003. The company has -modestly – described the plant as “the most modern ice-cream production facility in the world.”…
MAHARASHTRA SUGAR
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN government money is being demanded by the sugar industry in Mumbai’s Maharashtra state, to help it deal with the impact of declining prices and huge unsold inventories. At the start of the current winter crushing season, mill stocks reached 4.3 million tonnes.…
MAHARASHTRA SUGAR
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN government money is being demanded by the sugar industry in Mumbai’s Maharashtra state, to help it deal with the impact of declining prices and huge unsold inventories. At the start of the current winter crushing season, mill stocks reached 4.3 million tonnes.…
IVORY COAST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOVE of the secretariat of the International Cocoa Organisation to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from London, has been postponed because of the political and military turmoil in the country. The decision to go ahead with the move had only been taken this May.…
DELHI ICE-CREAM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
VRS Foods, of India, is setting up a new ice cream plant in Uttar Pradesh so it can launch the new Paras brand on the Delhi market. The line’s price will match Mother Dairy’s ice-cream, and be cheaper than market leader Kwality Walls.…
EU ADDITIVES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the authorisation of a new food additive, hydrogenated poly-1-decene, which Brussels wants cleared for use as a glazing agent in confectionery and dried fruit. The idea is to provide manufacturers with an alternative to the banned white mineral oil other than vegetable oil-based products, which suffer from rancidity and stickiness.…