Swarms of the desert locust, which invaded India via Pakistan in April, have made their way to at least five states, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Desert locusts move in large groups, called swarms, and can eat crops up to their own weight every day. When millions of locusts descend on a […]
Desert Locust upsurges aren’t a new phenomenon. Locusts are one of the oldest migratory pests in the world and have wreaked havoc on crops across the globe for centuries. When huge swarms infest many countries and spread across several regions or continents, it becomes a plague. A plague of Desert Locusts, the most destructive locust […]
FAO’s forecast for 2020 world wheat production points to an output of roughly 762.6 million tonnes, a comparable level to the 2019 production which, if materialized, would be the second highest on record. The UN food agency said smaller harvests are expected in the European Union, North Africa, Ukraine and the United States of America. These declines will […]
The UN food agency maintained its worldwide production forecast for 2019 – 2 720 million tonnes – but reduced its forecast for cereal utilization in 2019/20 by 24.7 million tonnes, largely as a result of COVID-19 impacts on economic growth, energy markets and the demand for animal feed. The new forecast mostly reflects reduced use […]
World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic and logistical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant contractions in demand for many commodities, the UN food agency said in its latest monthly report. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks international prices of the most commonly-traded food commodities, […]
The UN food agency said its forecast for 2020 world wheat production remains unchanged from the previous month, at the near record level of last year, which, coupled with ample inventories, will help shield food markets from turmoil during the coronavirus storm. In this month’s Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) […]
World food prices declined sharply in March, driven mostly by demand-side contractions linked to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the drop in global oil prices due mostly to expectations of economic slowdown as governments roll out restrictions designed to respond to the health crisis, the UN food agency said in its latest monthly report. The FAO […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world on a crisis footing, with unprecedented actions to restrict movements and plans for radical deployment of public funds to combat the threat posed by a novel coronavirus that knows no boundaries. Success will entail coherent and robust plans for our food systems. FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero Cullen […]
Global food prices hit a five-year high in December, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its monthly report. World food prices rose for the third consecutive month in December, as a strong rally in vegetable oil prices drove the FAO Food Price Index to its highest level in five years. The FAO […]
Select agri and agri-based commodities like meat, milk and fruits, among others, present export opportunity worth over $ 97 billion (about Rs 6.9 lakh crore) for India, as per data released by the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). India’s export share in agri items such as bananas, oranges, chicken, meat, and milk products like cheese […]
