Overview Ultrapetrol serves the shipping markets for grain, vegetable oils, minerals, crude oil, petroleum and refined petroleum products, as well as the offshore oil platform supply market. It operates three segments: a river...
Over the next five years, Hershey will expand and accelerate programs to improve cocoa communities by investing $10 million in West Africa and continuing to work with experts in agriculture, community development and...
Costa Rica finished 2011 as the top exporter of fresh pineapple in the world, after increasing the value of its exports by 8%, according to the National Chamber of Pineapple Producers (Canapep), reports...
Swiss investors presented a project to the Honduran President for the cultivation of sunflower seed, with an investment of $15 million, reports Elheraldo.hn (Jan. 5, 2012). The project to be developed jointly with...
At the end of the 2010-2011 harvest, Honduras exported 5.2 million 48-kilo bags, 13% more than in the 2009-2010 harvest, reports Elsalvador.com (Dec. 19, 2011). The value of exports of the crop totaled...
The 2011-2012 coffee crop in Honduras could be double last seasons, but runs the risk of being spoiled before it can be collected in its entirety due to lack of workers, reports Laprensahn.com...
Low banana production and the poor state of the roads that carry that fruit from its plantations in Aguan Valley determined Standard Fruit's decision to suspend arrivals, since Dec. 24, to the Honduran...
The Agricultural Health Service of Honduras (SENASA) said Dec. 20 it has signed a deal to export greenhouse tomatoes and peppers to the U.S. Heriberto Salinas Amador, director of SENASA, said this is...
Outgoing Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries Robert Montague said the future for the cocoa industry in Jamaica remains bright, based on initiatives being undertaken by the government and the high level of interest...
The combined effects of berry borer infestation, unfavorable weather conditions and farmer apathy could result in Jamaica's lowest coffee production in more than 20 years, reports The Jamaica Gleaner (Dec. 29, 2011). "When...
The Presidency of Nicaragua said on Jan. 9 that, despite problems with the current crop harvest, about 2 million quintals of coffee are expected to be picked. Amilcar Navarro, producer of the grain,...
HEADNOTE On November 15, 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a conference to explore what has been driving the large and rapid increases in Midwest farmland values. Academics, industry representatives, and...
HEADNOTE OBJECT OF DESIRE What do a husbarid-and-wife team of chocolatiers exchange on Valentine's Day? "Not chocolate, that's for sure," says John Doyle, who, along with Kira Baker-Doyle, runs the Philadelphia -based John...
Byline: Mark C. Johnson These days it's almost cliche to talk or write about Northern California red wines, especially the cabernet sauvignons of Napa Valley and Sonoma. Over the last three decades, prices...
Can e-cigarettes be the future of tobacco in the GCC? Kipp investigates... Business interests blocking a tobacco ban-this was the theme behind the excellent Jason Reitman movie 'Thank you for Smoking' and also...
NEWS The government is set to re-write controversial plans for the so-called "greening" of the Common Agricultural Policy to make them fairer for UK farmers. DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman said European Commission proposals...
Mexico has long known that climate change would have a negative impact on the country's agricultural production and, in particular, on subsistence producers. The problem took center stage when reports started filtering from...
The UK pig industry may be facing a brighter future than it did a year ago. In January 2011, ex-farm feed wheat was trading at an average of £196/t, compared with £138/t today....
ARABLE AICC Conference Oilseed rape yields could be hit by widespread turnip yellows virus infections this summer, Mark Stevens, head of crop protection at Broom's Barn Research Station, said....
Sugar beet drills Many of the drills being used to plant sugar beet seed are pretty old and overdue for replacement, points out British Sugar's Philip Ecclestone. In an article in the latest...