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Exclusive: China may become top wheat importer after crops ruined

August 24, 2021 at 1:16 p.m.

WU LIU, China/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's wheat crop has suffered more severely than previously thought from frost in the growing period and rain during the harvest, and import demand to...

Insight: Smuggling rice to Thailand – like coals to Newcastle

August 24, 2021 at 1:11 p.m.

SA KAEO, Thailand/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Hidden in 18-wheeler trucks, carts and pick-up vans, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice are being smuggled from Cambodia and Myanmar into Thailand, although...

Hot hog sales raise specter of inflation in China

August 23, 2021 at 1:04 p.m.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pigs are an unlikely barometer of inflationary pressure, but in China the country's declining herds are a matter of concern amid fears that a spike in pork...

Hot hog sales raise specter of inflation in China

December 24, 2018 at 1:51 p.m.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pigs are an unlikely barometer of inflationary pressure, but in China the country's declining herds are a matter of concern amid fears that a spike in pork...

Asia faces threat to crops if El Nino unleashed again

August 23, 2021 at 6:16 a.m.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A return of the El Nino weather pattern may threaten food output in Asia, the world's top producer of rice and palm oil, but drier conditions in...

Asia faces threat to crops if El Nino unleashed again

December 24, 2018 at 2:59 a.m.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A return of the El Nino weather pattern may threaten food output in Asia, the world's top producer of rice and palm oil, but drier conditions in...

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