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Export prices increased around one percent due to the strengthening Thai baht.

Singapore’s organic foods market is a niche with a moderate consumer base comprising mainly expatriates, affluent Singaporeans and millennials more willing to pay premium prices for healthy choices.

On March 16, FAS Kuala Lumpur paid a visit to Port Klang to witness discharge of U.S. corn from a Panamax cargo of 68,100 tons.

For 2016/17 total overall imports of corn into Malaysia are forecast to drop to 3.8 million tons.Even so, U.S. exports of corn are likely to increase to 150,000 tons....

ATO Japan supported 65 companies exhibiting in the USA Pavilion at FOODEX 2017, which attracted more than 80,000 attendees from across the Asia-Pacific region over four days.

The New Zealand cattle industry both dairy and beef sectors are now in a period of change which has not played out in entirety yet.

Taiwan is a mature and stable market. The primary driver behind soybean imports is demand for soybean meal for animal feed.

On March 8, 2017, Taiwan completed the first tranche of the 2017 U.S. rice Simultaneous Buy and Sell (SBS) tender GF4-106-015 for 18,500 tons.

Beginning February 4, 2017, Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety began enforcing biotech labeling requirements that were finalized on February 3, 2016.

On February 13, 2017, Japan revised a Ministerial Ordinance that will eliminate the practice of agebased testing of Japanese cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)....

Export prices remain unchanged as the strengthening Thai baht offset the downward pressure on domestic prices from the seasonal harvest of off-season rice.

Export prices declined one to two percent due to the weakening of the Thai baht and anticipation for the upcoming tender for feed-quality rice stocks, which will be issued on March 23.