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The early advance of the southwest monsoon and sufficient well-spread rains through July across the country have supported a significantly faster pace of sowing (18 percent increase over last year)...

In 2008, El Salvador abolished the Planting Seed Law that required imported seeds to have a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the seeds did not contain GMOs.

Since January 2014, the Burkinabe National Biosafety Agency (NBA) has been converting the status of the organization to a technical and scientific public institution (EPSET) for greater autonomy.

From October 2013 – June 2014, Taiwan imported over 1,600 thousand metric tons (TMT) of U.S. corn, exceeding Post estimates.

Following a near six month regulatory review, the Vietnam Minister of Agriculture signed the first four Certificates for Food and Feed Safety for four genetically modified corn traits.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the local production and milling industry once again came to an agreement on grain export management for the new marketing year.

FAS/Moscow increased the previous Russia total grain crop forecast for MY 2014/15 by 5 million metric tons (MMT) to 99 MMT.

Forecast rice exports for 2014 are revised up to 9.5 million metric tons.