Browse Data and Analysis

The Singapore food retail sector is highly developed and competitive.

Travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic have precluded required on-site inspections of seven U.S. plant exports by Japanese authorities.

Post anticipates a larger supply for MY2020/21, as a wet spring boosted fodder yields in non-irrigated land. Spanish fodder continues consolidating its presence in Asian markets.

In 2019, the total value of all retail food and beverage (F&B) sales in Japan fell 1.3 percent to ¥52,669 ($483.2 billion).

Vietnam ratified the European Union (EU)-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) on June 8, 2020.

New Zealand’s food and agricultural imports from the United States rose by 10 percent in 2019, totaling US$ 587 million, US$ 382 million of which were consumer-oriented products.

On May 29, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) confirmed that the U.S. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system for meat and poultry is sufficient...

Rice export prices remain high due to the strengthening of the Thai baht and an upward pressure on domestic rice prices.

Rice export prices declined 3-5 percent due to a lack of new inquiries.

The spread of COVID-19 has generated new approaches to serving China’s 1 billion adult consumers.

Due to low farm gate prices in the second quarter of 2020 as a result of the challenges of COVID-19, Post has lowered chicken meat production to three percent growth over the 2019 level.

Burma’s beans and pulse production in MY 2020/21 is forecast to increase by 3 percent with expanded growing areas, especially for Black matpe and Toor whole in line with increased demand from India.