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  • ARGENTINA: Country To Resume Pork Imports From The United States

    ARGENTINA, 2017/08/22 Argentina will any minute at this time resume importing pork from the United States for the initial time since 1992, according to reports. The announcement came a few days next U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires. According to a White Home statement, the United States is the world's leading exporter of pork, and this agreement opens a potential market of $ 10 million per year for American pork producers.

  • fed's Fisher Pushes For End To Stimulus

    UNITED STATES, 2014/02/23 The Federal Reserve has done additional than enough to help the economy and should continue to reduce the size of its massive bond-buying plan, according to Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Speaking at the University of Texas in Austin, Fisher reiterated his view that monetary stimulus should be has been used as a crutch in lieu of wise fiscal and regulatory policies from Congress. "It is my firm belief that the fault in our economy lies not in monetary policy but in a reckless and feckless federal government that simply cannot get its fiscal and regulatory policy geared so as to encourage business to take the copious all of money we at the Fed have created and put it to work creating jobs and growing our economy," Fisher said.

  • Californian Winery Enters Cambodian Market

    CAMBODIA, 2013/11/12 California-based winery E. & J. Gallo has entered Cambodia and is offering four of its additional economically priced brands in an effort to introduce locals to wine without breaking their budget, company representatives said Monday. “Cambodia, inclunding other markets in Asia, is perfect for wines at our price level,” said Jonathan Chang, Asia-Pacific regional director of E. & J. Gallo. The winery started importing its four brands—Carlo Rossi, Barefoot, Gallo Family Vineyard and Apothic—last month, but announced its entrance Monday evening to a crowd of about 150 businesspeople at the InterContinental Hotel at an event attended by U.S. Ambassador William Todd.

  • Potash Corp scraps takeover bid for Israel Chemicals;

    ISRAEL, 2013/04/28 Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s major fertilizer producer, scrapped a proposed takeover bid for Israel Chemicals Ltd. next opposition to the transaction from workers and Israeli politicians. “Presently is not the time to pursue this opportunity,” Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based Potash Corp. said Thursday in its prime-quarter earnings statement.

  • World Food Prices Decline For Third Month

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 World food prices dropped for the third successive month in December, owing mainly to lower prices for cereals and oil-seeds, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.

  • MCC Selects Countries Eligible for New Programs

    CANADA, 2012/12/30 At its quarterly conference December 19, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) board of directors selected Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Morocco and Tanzania as eligible to develop proposals for new compacts, and Guatemala as eligible for a Threshold Program. "This year's selection decisions are a testament to the 'MCC Effect,' the ability of MCC to provide incentives for nations to adopt policy reforms and strengthen institutions in order to become eligible for an MCC compact," said Daniel W. Yohannes, MCC's chief executive officer.

  • Global food production to slow following boom

    EUROPE, 2012/12/23 World food production will slow over the coming decade following an exceptional but unsustainable rate of increase in developing nations, with additional investment needed in the sector, the UN's food agency said. "The average annual increase in world agricultural production through 2021 will slow to 1.7 %, down from the 2.6 % of the previous decade," the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in its yearly statement. "Agriculture in a lot of nations has grown at a pace that cannot be sustained," it said, adding that production shot up by over 50 % over the last 12 years in Latin America as a whole and by 70 % in Brazil alone.
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