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India won’t allow extra cotton exports for now: trade minister

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Bans and Sanctions, Cotton, Export, India

NEW DELHI: India will not allow additional cotton exports for the current year ending in September as of now, Trade Minister Anand Sharma said on Monday.

“Until further orders, there will not be fresh registrations,” Sharma said after a panel of ministers met to review cotton exports from India, after the world’s second-largest producer banned shipments of the fibre last month.

Government and trade sources said last month India was unlikely to allow new cotton exports at the ministers’ meet and may not lift the ban at least until July.

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India should allow processing of pulses (legumes) for exports

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, India, Pulses and Legumes

The Indian government should allow at least the processing of imported raw pulses for export markets so that the domestic milling industry occupies the slots now occupied by units located in neighbouring and other countries, said an official of the industry association.

He also said that India should make pulses part of the public distribution system (PDS) so that the farmers get at least the minimum support price (MSP),

"India is the largest importer of pulses and our demand is to allow milling of imported raw pulses for exports. There will be value addition and earning of foreign exchange. Similarly farmers in India do not actively grow pulses due to price vagaries. So our demand is to bring pulses as part of PDS so that the government sources the pulses and the farmers get the minimum support price," Anurag Tulshan, coordinator - Eastern and North Eastern Region of India Pulses and Grains Association, told reporters here Friday.

He said the association is now interacting with the government closely on the issues faced by the sector. However, he agreed that the association is not talking with the governments - at the centre and states - to grow those varieties of pulses where the states enjoy a natural advantage rather than farming several varieties.

Tulshan was here to showcase the proposed four-day 'The 2012 Annual Global Pulses Convention' to be held in Dubai April 21-24 organised by the International Pulse Trade and Industry Confederation (IPTIC).

According to Sudhakar Tomar, honorary chair (communications & sponsorships), IPTIC, the pulses sold in the US and other overseas markets though branded with Indian names are actually processed in countries like Sri Lanka and others.

He said IPTIC is a global body comprising of over 12 national associations and 800 individual organisations engaged in pulses trade from over 50 countries.

Tomar said the global pulses trade size is around $100 billion in terms of value and 60 million tonnes in terms of volume.

"The production is flat/stagnant at 60 million tonnes in the recent times," he added.

According to him, if only the world reduces meat consumption by just 10 percent there will be opportunity to increase pulses production in a major way.

"The annual global meat consumption is around 300 million tonnes, and to feed that cattle population there should be 4.5 billion tonnes of agro crops," he said.

Speaking about the ensuing conference, Tomar said IPTIC expects around 1,000 delegates as compared to 800 who attended the previous year's edition.

He said delegates from over 600 companies from over 50 countries are expected to participate.

Tomar said the Dubai-based IPTIC is also announcing the launch of 2016 as the Year of Pulses in association with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and United Nations.

IANS

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Cotton export ban likely to stay

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Bans and Sanctions, Cotton, Export, India

The commerce department is expected to continue a ban on fresh registration of cotton consignments for exports despite political pressure, including from the Congress.

Although a final decision will be taken by a group of ministers, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, over the next few days, the commerce and textiles department are sticking to their stand that opening the gates to fresh exports will leave domestic players with little cotton to meet local demand.

The commerce department has sought that a meeting of ministerial panel take place immediately as a two-week deadline had been fixed to take a final call on exports for the current cotton year, which ends in September.

The government was forced to withdraw the ban on export of registered consignments, although the commerce department feared that a large part of the cotton was meant for speculative trading. The move followed a meeting with a delegation of Congressmen from Gujarat, led by Ahmed Patel.

The commerce department will argue that there is a concentration of exports in a few hands and only a few exporters are responsible for large-scale shipments. Besides, a large part of the exports are directed towards China, which is building large stocks and its reserve stock has climbed by over 60%.

On Friday, commerce & industry minister Anand Sharma, who also holds the textiles portfolio, wrote to agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, a key dissenter on the cotton export ban, for higher minimum support price (MSP). He is learnt to have suggested that the Commission on Agricultural Costs & Prices revisit the modalities. The demand comes in wake of suggestions from Maharashtra that has demanded MSP of Rs 4,000 a quintal against the prevailing market price of Rs 3,100-Rs 3,350 a quintal.

Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan met Sharma with and the demand for a higher MSP was discussed with him.

In a statement on Friday, the commerce department said it has completed scrutiny of all registered contracts for export of cotton through the land custom stations (LCS) with India's neighbour. Based on the scrutiny, the directorate general of foreign trade will also determine the share of speculative exports that was taking place.

Cotton exports were banned on March 5, with the window opened partially a week later. The government had sought applications for revalidation of already issued registration certificates on March 16, and closed that on Thursday.

Economic Times

India Times

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Cotton exports possible in case of surplus: Sharma

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Bans and Sanctions, Cotton, Export, India, Textile

Notwithstanding lifting of ban on cotton exports, Commerce Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma Tuesday said India will not be able to ship the natural fibre abroad unless it has surplus.

"... we will be in a position to export (cotton), when we have that surplus again," he said at an IMF-ICRIER event here.

On March 5, the Commerce Ministry had imposed the ban on cotton exports on evidence of hoarding in warehouses abroad and shortage in the domestic market.

Following intense pressure from political parties, it had to lift the prohibition in a week's time.

But the government has allowed cotton exports of only registered contracts made till March 4 after scrutinisation and revalidation and no fresh registration of contracts would be allowed till further orders.

Besides, Sharma said that during the first four months of the season (October to September) the country has exceeded the exportable surplus.

India, which is the second largest producer of cotton in the world, had issued registrations certificates for 130 lakh bales (170 kg each) of cotton before the prohibition and out of that 95 lakh bales were shipped.

Stating that the natural fibre arrivals would be low after March, Sharma said, "We have a cotton textiles industry ... We cannot have a situation where there is no value-addition."

India is expected to produce 340 lakh bales of the natural fibre in the 2011-12 season.

Textile mills consumption is estimated at 216 lakh bales for the current season.

The decision to ban cotton exports was criticised by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

Besides, some chief ministers, including those from Congress-ruled Maharashtra and BJP-ruled Gujarat, had conveyed heir resentment over the move, stating it would hurt farmers.

Press Trust of India

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Indonesian Palm Oils Exports

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: agro industries, Export, exports, GAPKI, Indonesia, Industri Kelapa Sawit, industri sawit, Oil Palm

Source: GAPKI NEWSLETTER OCT-NOV 11 | Date: 06 JAN 2012 | Author: GAPKI

Compared to the previous year of the same month, total Indonesian palm oil export in October 2011 increased around 11% from 1.59 million metric tons to 1.77 million metric tons. However, the increase of October export from the previous year was lower than that of September which had an increase of 16%, from 1.38 million metric tons on September 2010 to 1.60 million metric tons on September 2011. If October 2011 export was compared to the previous month, it increased around 10% from 1.60 million metric tons in September 2011 to 1.77 million metric tons.

The export consists of palm oils and kernel oils. In October 2011 the export consisted of 73% of palm oils and 27% of kernel oils with the amount of 1.30 million tons and 469 thousand tons respectively. The composition was a little bit change, in the same month of previous year it consisted of 91% of palm oils (1.45 million tons) and 9% of kernel oils (145 thousand tons)

Indonesian Palm Oils Exports by Products (1000 Ton)

Year	2011	Palm Oils			Kernel Oils
Products	Total	Palms	Procd	Crude	PKO's	Procd	Crude
Total	12.843,41	11.796,25	5.249,32	6.546,93	1.047,16	182,18	864,98
Jan	1.529,89	1.372,02	525,98	846,03	157,88	26,81	131,06
Feb	1.218,33	1.097,29	559,50	537,79	121,04	20,69	100,35
Mar	814,98	753,23	390,77	362,46	61,76	10,51	51,24
Apr	1.400,75	1.319,93	591,69	728,24	80,82	22,01	58,81
May	1.751,70	1.609,42	697,37	912,05	142,28	12,85	129,43
Jun	1.483,80	1.394,72	553,70	841,02	89,09	14,32	74,76
Jul	1.218,01	1.140,04	558,33	581,70	77,98	16,06	61,91
Aug	1.824,62	1.688,09	693,71	994,38	136,53	20,37	116,16
Sep	1.601,31	1.421,51	678,26	743,25	179,79	38,54	141,26
Oct	1.765,81	1.297,13	703,75	593,38	468,68	393,47	75,22

Palm oils are in the forms of CPO, RBDPO, RBDOL, Crude OL, RBD ST, Crude ST and PFAD, while kernel oils are in the forms of CPKO, RBD PKO, PKE, RBD PKST, CNO, RBD CNO, COPEX, PKFAD. Unlike in the previous months, in October 2011 for the first time Indonesia exported more in the form of the processed palm oils than that of crude palm oil. The processed palm oils share was around 54%, while the crude palm oil was around 46%. The same as palm oils, in October 2011 kernel palm oil was mostly exported as processed kernel oils. The export of processed kernel palm oil was 84% 469 thousand tons of kernel palm oil and the rest 16% was in the form of crude kernel oils.

The increase of the Indonesian palm oil export in October 2011 compared to September 2011 was helped by the short supply of soya oil and rape oil in the world. Critically dry weather in some parts of South America contributed to the short supply of soya oil. La Nina was blamed for the condition. World production of sunflowerseed was also down that further increased the palm oil demand. Since some major commodities of oilseed are subject to supply constraint, it raised the need for alternatives for many importing countries, and palm oil is the best alternative. It is predicted that world export of palm oil will need to increase by roughly 1.5 MT.

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India not to allow fresh cotton exports-govt

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Bans and Sanctions, Cotton, Export, India

India will not allow any fresh exports of cotton and only the quantity permitted before the government imposed a ban on overseas sales will be allowed to be shipped, the trade secretary said on Monday.

“No new registration certificates will be issued,” Rahul Khullar told reporters, a day after the government announced the lifting of a controversial ban on cotton exports at a time when the global market is over-supplied.

Contracts for about 2.5 million bales are already registered and awaiting shipment.

The ban, announced unexpectedly on March 5, after a record 9.5 million bales had been shipped, ran into criticism from the influential farm minister, Sharad Pawar, and China, the biggest buyer of cotton from the world’s second-largest producer.

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Guimaras Mango Exports Get Boost

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, Mango, Philippines

By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT

The country’s mango export is expected to get a boost once Guimaras province has been granted “Geographical Indication” for being the site of the world famous mango, which production has been reduced by 30 percent due to erratic weather condition.

Guimaras governor Felipe Hilan A. Nava said in a press conference conducted by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) during a seminar on “Geographical Indication” that they expect to resume exports to the US market after five years following the inspection by the US Department of Agriculture on Guimaras mangoes last year.

According to Nava, the mango production in Guimaras has dwindled to 7,000 to 8,000 metric tons from a peak 12,000 MT five years ago because of erratic weather condition. Of this production, only 40 percent can be exported.

The US and Australia have allowed Guimaras mangoes to enter their markets. But there had been no exports to the US in the last five years because they could not compete with the price of mangoes from Mexico.

Mexico, which has been promoting the Manila mango variety, has been exporting mangoes to the U.S. for only $9 per box as against the Philippines $40 per box.

According to Nava, Marsman Drysdale used to operate the Oro Berde mango plantation in Guimaras, but stopped because it was placed under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Marsman was only left with 100 hectares. Likewise, DOLE Philippines’ mango project in the province did not prosper due to poor production.

Nava, however, said that the initiative of the IPOPHL for the registration of “GI”, there could be a renewed interest for mango farming in the province. He said that mango growing in Guimaras is largely a backyard livelihood and a form of a cash crop.

Guimaras mangoes are being sold at premium P60 to P80 a kilo farmgate prices. Customers even pay for P100 per kilo.

IPOPHL director-general Ricardo Blancaflor said the seminar hopes to come up with a draft “GI Bill” that would pave the way for the registration of qualified “GI” products in the country.

The designation of a region as a “GI” provides protection to the unique native products originating from that particular region in the country. These Gis consists of the name of the place from which a product origi-nated. It is a sign used on goods that possess characteristics, qualifies or a reputation essentially attributable to their geographic origin.

Manila Bulletin Publications

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Mexico’s Meat Exports Surge 41% in 2011

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Beef, Export, Meat, Mexico

Mexico’s meat exports surged 41 percent in 2011, thanks to growth in sales to Japan, Angola, Benin, Ghana, Kazakhstan and Nigeria, the Agriculture Secretariat said.

Mexico exported 210,325 tons of meat worth $937 million in 2011, up from the 149,136 tons exported the previous year, the secretariat said.

The improvement in exports was due “to the joint efforts of producers and the federal and state governments to maintain the health status that sets Mexico apart,” the secretariat said in a statement.

Japan became the top buyer of Mexican meat in 2011, importing 78,292 tons, followed by the United States, with 66,463 tons; Russia, with 28,541 tons; and South Korea, with 16,217 tons, the secretariat said.

Meat exports originated in 19 of Mexico’s 32 states, led by Sonora, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Yucatan, Jalisco, Baja California and Nuevo Leon, “whose health conditions have been fully certified by the authorities,” the secretariat said.

Mexico exports meat and meat byproducts to 33 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, with the leading markets being Japan, the United States, Russia and South Korea, the secretariat said.

Beef exports totaled $532 million, pork sales totaled $323 million, poultry exports totaled $16 million, sales of other types of meat totaled $34 million and sales of meat byproducts totaled $32 million. EFE

Latin America

Herald Tribune

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Turkey sees rise in seed production, export in 2011

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, Seeds, Turkey (Country)

(Today's Zaman) Turkey's seed production has risen fourfold, while seed export has increased by a factor of six in the past nine years.

According to an announcement by the Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Ministry, Turkey exported seed to 66 countries, in particular to Russia, Ukraine and Italy. Seed export generated $109 million in revenue for the country in 2011.

The ministry noted the role that regulations implemented during the course of the nine years to improve the conditions of the sector had played in this increase, and said that those regulations, passed with the support of the ministry, as well as its support for certified seed production have also contributed largely to the improvements.

Expressing its support of private and public research institutes, the ministry stated: “Seed production rose from 145,000 tons in 2002 to 635,000 tons in 2011 with the implementation of such regulations. At the same time, the size of the sector grew seven times and increased from $120 million to $960 million.”

The biggest increase in seed export was seen in vegetable seed, with a 5,062 percent rise. Production of barley seed ranked highest among grain crops exported, with an increase of 1,100 percent between 2002 and 2011. Rice seed followed, with a 562 percent increase, while production of wheat seed, sunflower seed, corn seed and cotton seed were also high on the list. Russia ranked at the top for buying the largest amount of seed from Turkey, with $16.4 million.

Ukraine came second, with $15.5 million, followed by Italy, with $14.9 million.

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Ukraine exports 1.24 million tonnes of grain

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, Grain, Ukraine

Ukraine exported about 1.24 million tonnes of grain, mostly corn, in the first 24 days of February, Kiev-based consultancy ProAgro said on Monday.

It said Ukraine exported about 951,000 tonnes of corn and 266,000 tonnes of wheat.

No figures for the same period of 2011 were immediately available.

The consultancy said Ukrainian wheat went mostly to Italy (38,500 tonnes), Jordan (25,500 tonnes), Israel (72,000 tonnes) and Spain (52,500 tonnes).

The former Soviet republic supplied corn mostly to Egypt (172,000 tonnes), Iran (139,500 tonnes), South Korea (59,700 tonnes), Japan (50,100 tonnes), Germany, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and Turkey.

An additional 957,000 tonnes of corn, 257,000 tonnes of wheat and 106,000 tonnes of barley would be exported in the near future, it said.

The Agriculture Ministry forecasts exports at about 23 million tonnes of grain in the 2011/12 season after Ukraine harvested a record 56.7 million tonnes of grain in 2011.

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Philippine January coconut oil exports fall

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: coconut oil, Export, Philippines

Philippine exports of coconut oil in January fell 49 percent from a year earlier on weak demand from main buyers Europe and the United States, industry data showed on Wednesday.

The Southeast Asian country shipped a total of 52,631 tonnes of coconut oil last month, compared with total exports of 103,074 tonnes in January last year, the United Coconut Associations of the Philippines (UCAP) said in a report.

The European market bought 30,634 tonnes or 58 percent of total shipments, while the United States cornered 18,677 tonnes or about 36 percent.

Japan took the balance of 3,320 tonnes.

Based on UCAP estimates, coconut oil exports last month were valued at $68 million, less than half of year-ago earnings of $159.3 million as a result of sharply reduced volume and cheaper prices.

The Philippines is the world's biggest supplier of coconut oil, which is used in food, detergents and biofuels and is one of the country's top foreign exchange earners.

UCAP forecast coconut oil exports this year to rise 12.3 percent to 925,000 tonnes, recovering from last year's nearly 39 percent slump caused by tight supply of copra from which the commodity is extracted.

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Ukraine denies curbing wheat exports

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, Forecast, Grain, Ukraine

Ukraine's government said on Wednesday it had not urged grain traders to limit wheat exports, denying local media reports it had done so, and it forecast that there would be no shortages of grain on the domestic market.

"There are no recommendations to limit wheat exports," Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk told reporters.

"Traders are telling us they will not be able to export more than 300,000-500,000 tonnes of wheat a month and our balance (of exports and consumption) allows for that." Ukrainian media reported last week that traders and the government had agreed to limit exports of wheat due to the threat of future shortages following weather damage to winter crop plantings.

Prysyazhnyuk said drought during the winter sowing in 2011 and severe frosts in January-February had damaged about 3.0 million hectares of Ukrainian winter grains and 500,000 hectares of winter rapeseed.

"We expect that all of these areas would be reseeded this spring.

We recommend farmers to sow corn, spring wheat, barley, soybean and these crops allow us to keep the harvest at a high level," he said.

He said Ukraine would harvest 42 million to 50 million tonnes of grain this year, including 15 million-16 million tonnes of wheat, adding that this would be enough to meet domestic demand.

Ukraine harvested a record of 56.7 million tonnes of grain in 2011, including 22.3 million tonnes of wheat.

But this year's winter crops have been hit by drought and extreme cold.

He said Ukraine consumed no more than 26.5 million tonnes of grain per season.

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Vietnam to export up to 150,000 tonnes of sugar

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: Export, Sugar, Vietnam

Vietnam will export 100,000-150,000 tonnes of sugar this year to help offset a domestic surplus as supply is expected to outstrip demand, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.

Domestic refined sugar output could reach 1.57 million tonnes, above expected demand of 1.4 million tonnes, the ministry's department for processing and trading agricultural and forestry products said on its website (chebien.mard.gov.vn).

Refineries in Vietnam would turn out 1.4 million tonnes of sugar, while 100,000 tonnes were brought forward from 2011 and another 70,000 tonnes would be imported under World Trade Organisation commitments, the department said in a statement.

"To reduce pressure on distribution and enable sugar refineries to recover funds for production, the Agriculture Ministry has agreed with the Industry and Trade Ministry on the export," the statement said but gave no specific timeframe.

Sugar imports would start from June 2012, after the 2012 sugarcane crushing season ends in May, it said.

Vietnam last year exported sugar to northern neighbour China, which had a domestic shortage.

Apart from the official inflow, Vietnam, a minor sugar producer by world standards, has also been facing problems with smuggled sugar, mostly of Thai product, across its land border with Cambodia.

Some physical dealers speculated that Vietnam could export white sugar, which may put pressure on premiums for Thai whites.

On Tuesday, quotations for Thai white sugar premiums ranged from as low as $20 a tonne to London futures to as high as $30, with dealers keeping a close eye on Vietnam.

Vietnam's projected sugar surplus problem is in line with global output.

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China sets record with US soyabean purchase

Posted by Flora Sawita Labels: China, Export, soybean, Trade Agreements, USA

China set a record with a purchase of 2.92 million tonnes of US soyabeans, reported by exporters on Friday, two days after a Chinese delegation signed agreements in Iowa to buy millions of tonnes of the oilseed.

The agreements were signed during a visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

China is the world's largest importer of soyabeans and regularly buys one-fourth of the US crop.

Almost all of the soyabeans in the record sale, 2.75 million tonnes, would be delivered in the marketing year that opens on September 1.

Drought has damaged the South American soya crop, so US supplies will be more vital to importers.

The sale was worth $1.36 billion, based on current prices.

The previous record for the largest sale of US soyabeans was 2.74 million tonnes, also to China, on January 27, 2011, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture.

"These are big numbers and it tells you the seriousness of China pricing," said Don Roose, analyst and president of US Commodities in Des Moines, Iowa.

He added: "That is a big number for a new-crop bean sale".

Roose said the waning soyabean crop prospects in South America and the China buying could lead to a 10 to 15 cents per bushel higher open on Friday for Chicago Board of Trade soyabean futures.

On Wednesday, a Chinese trade delegation signed agreements in Iowa to buy 8.62 million tonnes of US soyabeans, worth $6 billion.

China is the No 1 market for US farm exports with purchases that totalled $20 billion last year.

Sales are forecast to be slightly lower this year due to weaker commodity prices.

China buys 60 percent of soyabeans on the world market and nearly half of the cotton traded internationally.

Analysts believe it will become a sizeable corn importer in the near term.

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India won’t allow extra cotton exports for now: trade minister

India should allow processing of pulses (legumes) for exports

Cotton export ban likely to stay

Cotton exports possible in case of surplus: Sharma

Indonesian Palm Oils Exports

India not to allow fresh cotton exports-govt

Guimaras Mango Exports Get Boost

Mexico’s Meat Exports Surge 41% in 2011

Turkey sees rise in seed production, export in 2011

Ukraine exports 1.24 million tonnes of grain

Philippine January coconut oil exports fall

Ukraine denies curbing wheat exports

Vietnam to export up to 150,000 tonnes of sugar

China sets record with US soyabean purchase

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