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Export prices for white rice remained unchanged as the public tender for 2.2 million metric tons of old-crop rice has not yet been finalized.

The impact of the drought and hail damage is anticipated to have a greater effect in the production areas of Limpopo resulting in decreases in the 2015/16 MY production of grapefruit and oranges.

Post forecasts that the area under cotton production in Zimbabwe will increase, under normal climatic conditions, to about 300,000 hectares and production will recover to around 210,000 MT

Export prices remained unchanged as traders are awaiting the new public tender for 2.2 million metric tons of government stocks.

Export prices declined around 1 percent as the government is expected to issue a public tender for 2.2 million metric tons on June 15, 2016.

Export prices remained steady as traders waited for the government to finalize the bids for the 1.2 million metric tons of rice announced in the public tender issued on May 19.

The start of the MY2016/17 main-crop rice crop planting season is delayed due to the lack of water. Tight domestic supplies put upward pressure on Thai rice exports.