The Philippines will increase the production of all main grans in the first half of the current year, including rice by +11,7% up to 3,71 mln tons, corn by +29,9% up to 3,67 mln tons thanks to the increase of area and crops.
On January 14, 2017 (Saturday), Egypt's National Company GASC started an auction for wheat purchase, at which 235,000 tons of wheat were bought from Russia and Romania.
Wheat export from Canada has been shrinking significantly during the current season despite harvest growth, Canadian Grain Commisiion (CGC) states. 6.2 mln tons soft wheat have been exported from Canada for the first 23 weeks of the season which marks a 19 per cent decrease compared with the same period of MY 2015 - 2016. Hard wheat export has gone down by 6 per cent to 1.8 mln tons.
AGRO-TECEI predict that sunflower harvest in Argentina will be 3.5 tons, which is lower than the original expectations. The reason for the decrease is the excessive amount of rain in Buenos Airse province.
In November 2016, France's corn export was below 350,900 tons and barley export was 248,700 tons. Compared with November 2015 corn export has decreased by 24%, and barley export has decreased by 28%.
In October, the export of French soft wheat to third countries has dropped to 293,000 tons according to the country's customs services. It has been the lowest export for this month of year since 2007.
