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French wheat exports to Algeria decreased by almost 47 percent due to a lack of available quality and quantity, opening Algeria to exports from Poland and Germany.

Post forecasts Israel’s MY 2014/15 (October-September) citrus production at 604 thousand metric tons (TMT), up nearly 17 percent from MY2013/14.

Burger King's possible return to Israel; New Israeli Food Law; Reform to the Tariff Rate Quota Allocation System.

The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) recently announced that it supports the creation of new dairy cattle farms and importing 90,000 dairy cattle in the near future.

In 2013, imports of food and agricultural products by Israel totaled nearly $5.5 billion, a 3.6 percent increase from 2012.

Summarized in this report: ISRAFOOD to be held on November 25-27 in Tel Aviv, Russia growing destination for Israeli fresh potatoes and Minister of Agriculture argues against tax increase.

Due to the recent increase in the rejection of U.S. apple and pear exports to Israel, the Israeli Plant and Protection Services has updated the phytosanitary import requirements.

U.S origin dairy products trade resumed in 2011 and exports have been on an upward trend since then and it seems for the foreseeable future.

In late October the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) reported that total cereal production for MY2014/2015 is estimated at 3.4 MMT but continues to be silent about bread wheat and durum productions.

In its efforts to bring down the cost of imported food, the Chief Rabbinate of the State of Israel (CR) is looking to increase the supply of imported kosher meat.

Summarized in this report: Gaza War and its impacts, imports of agricultural and food products into Israel are up and the 2013 Annual Survey of Organic Produce in Israel.

Algeria’s MY 2014/15 total grain production suffered from water stress due to the spring drought. The preliminary forecast is 3.0 MMT, a 38 percent decrease from last year’s crop of 4.9 MMT.