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Venezuelan sugar production is forecast down to 150,000 metric tons in MT 2020/21 due to shortages of fuel and inputs.

During market year 2020/21, a decrease in production is forecast across most commodities in Venezuela.

France as a member of the European Community has implemented EU regulations for the import of animal and plant products.

EU-27+UK chicken meat production is expected to increase slightly again in 2020 driven by both domestic and export demand.

France has no commercial production or field trials of genetically engineered (GE) crops.

An ongoing, severe economic and political crisis in the country has led to hyperinflation and contributed to falling U.S. agricultural product exports.

After months of debate, in December 2019 France announced required no-pesticide buffer zones between treated crops and inhabited areas.

France imported $1.53 billion of food and agricultural products from the United States in 2018.

Five years of economic contraction, hyperinflation, and limited investment have negatively impacted Venezuelan poultry production.

At nearly 313.5 MMT, the total MY2019/20 EU28 grain crop is around 2 MMT higher than the previous forecast, with higher wheat, corn and barley production partially offset by a lower mixed grain....

FAS Paris obtained a waiver from the French Ministry of Agriculture that allowed the U.S. foundation Wreath Across America to import into France 10,000 U.S. sourced balsam pine wreaths....

On October 16, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron named Senator Didier Guillaume as the new French Minister for Agriculture and Food.