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Market Year (MY) 2016/17 raw sugar production may increase to 2.25 million metric tons (MMT) from 2.135 MMT in MY 2015/16 with a return to more normal weather conditions....

On March 29, 2017, the Russian Federation notified to the WTO via G/SPS/N/RUS/102/Add.1 that “The Common Quarantine Phytosanitary Requirements of the Eurasian Economic Union" was approved....

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) imports around one third of the wine consumed domestically (2016 import value $15.2 million), mostly from its neighbors Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia.

Serbia’s marketing year (MY) 2016/17 wheat crop was the largest in over twenty years at an estimated three million metric tons (MMT), compared to 2.6 million last year.

Bulgarian farmers are expanding the planted areas under oilseed crops in the new season MY2017/18 led by sunflower seeds.

Total production of rapeseed in MY 2017/18 is forecast to increase by 60 percent to 160,000 MT in comparison to record low in the last decade production in MY 2016/2017.

Quebec is the largest wine importing province in Canada, with 2016 imports valued at $640 million (158 million liters of imported wine).

In 2016, Canada remained the top destination for U.S. exports of high-value agricultural products, with a total of $16.2 billion.

Palm oil production is expected to increase from 17.7 million tons in 2015/16 to 19.4 million tons in 2016/17 and to 21 million tons in 2017/18 due to palm trees recovering from tree stress....

On March 13, 2017, the European Commission presented its long awaited report examining whether mandatory nutrition labeling requirements should be extended to alcoholic beverages....

Post forecasts that a record area of 1.4 million hectares will be planted with oilseeds in South Africa in the 2017/18 MY.

Post's combined estimates of Nigeria's MY2017/18 production for wheat, rice, corn and sorghum is set at about 16.3 million tons, representing a slight drop from the current MY2016/17 estimate....