HARARE - Jun 2/05 - IRIN -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday told visiting UN Special Envoy to Southern Africa, James Morris, that the country requires food aid to cope with a drought-linked food crisis. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jun 2/05 - IRIN -- More than three million Ugandans, including 1.4 million people displaced by conflict in the northern region, are facing serious food shortages, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 2/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending May 25 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 7/05 - SNS -- For the second time in the last eighteen months, the Russian government has applied a temporary increase in import duties for non-modified and modified starches, reports the U.S. agricultural attache for the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 7/05 - SNS -- This year's monsoon is more crucial than usual for India as water levels in the country's irrigation reservoirs are only 92% of the ten-year average, reports the U.S. agricultural attache for the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Jun 8/05 - SNS -- The United Nations World Food Programme expressed pleasure with yesterday's announcement that the United States would spend more than U.S. $2 billion funding for humanitarian emergencies in Africa and the United Kingdom around $300 million. . . . Continue or visitors click here

HARARE - Jun 8/05 - IRIN -- Five years after Zimbabwe's land redistribution program began, tension still characterizes relationships between white and black farmers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jun 9/05 - IRIN -- Financial analysts in Botswana have urged the government to pay more attention to declining agricultural production, noting that the current over reliance on diamonds could pose a threat to future economic growth. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 9/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending June 1 dropped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 10/05 - SNS -- Area strung for harvest in 2005 for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is forecast at 29,189 acres, 5% more than the 2004 crop of 27,742 acres, and 2% more than the 2003 crop of 28,669 acres, according to the latest USDA cropproduction estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LONDON - Jun 15/05 - SNS -- Creative accounting by the United States, European Union and other rich countries is allowing them to dump highly subsidized agricultural production into poor countries, while using the WTO to prevent poor nations from countering this economic threat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 16/05 - SNS -- Barge traffic declined during the first quarter of 2005, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 16/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending June 8 dropped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Jun 20/05 - SNS -- Last year's drought and locust invasion is threatening widespread grain production shortfalls in West Africa, worries the FAO. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jun 20/05 - IRIN -- The UN food agency has appealed for an additional US $94 million to buy more food for an estimated 3.5 million people who could go hungry as a result of the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BAMAKO - Jun 20/05 - IRIN -- Food prices are soaring and precious cattle are dying in Mali as a result of drought and last year's locust swarms. The government has called for urgent food assistance to avert malnutrition among more than a million vulnerable people. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 20/05 - SNS -- The USDA is terminating the proceeding to establish a marketing agreement and order for hops grown in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jun 22/05 - IRIN -- Food and agricultural experts say more than half a million Mozambicans face shortages unless an estimated 70,000 metric tons (MT) of emergency relief aid is secured. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 23/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending June 15 dropped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Jun 24/05 - SNS -- The FAO warns that survey operations need to get underway quickly to monitor desert locust populations in Sudan and Eritrea as several swarms have moved east across Sudan from Darfur towards the Gedaref area and the border with Eritrea in mid-June. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Jun 28/05 - SNS -- The Food and Agriculture Organization says field tests of a biological based pesticide have proven successful in trials aimed at controlled Desert Locusts. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jun 28/05 - IRIN -- An estimated 231,000 refugees living in camps in Kenya are in dire need of food, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, when it appealed for US $6.7 million to feed them until the end of 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 29/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending June 15 dropped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 29/05 - SNS -- Total grain inspections for export at U.S. ports was down during the first quarter of 2005, even as the volumes of soybeans rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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WASHINGTON - Jun 30/05 - SNS -- Producers in the United States expect to harvest 61.7 million acres of all hay in 2005, down fractionally from 2004, according to the USDA seeded area estimates for 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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