The state-run Turkish Grain Board has issued a tender for the sale and export of up to 100,000 tonnes of red milling wheat and up to 100,000 tonnes of durum wheat, European traders said on

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Japanese trading house Sojitz Corp, a unit of Sojitz Holdings, had sold 25,000 tonnes of Australian alumina for March shipment via tender last week at about $410 a tonne FOB, European traders said on Monday.

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Russia's imports of soyabean meal reached 152,889 tonnes in the last quarter of 2004, half the amount imported in the whole of 2003/04 season (October - September) due to a vigorous development of the domestic

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Rains were below average in six out of Ivory Coast's nine cocoa-growing zones between February 11-20, data from the national weather service showed on Monday, but farmers said the upcoming mid-crop was unscathed so far.

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Belgium's intervention agency has received and registered an offer of 38,000 tonnes of white sugar to be taken into storage, a senior European Union source said on Monday. Combined with a similar offer made last

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Thai rice futures closed higher in quiet trade on Monday as players sought direction, brokers said. Overall volume dropped as 96 contracts of benchmark 5 percent white rice were traded compared to Friday's 110. "Players

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South Africa expects a 2004/05 maize harvest of 10.259 million tonnes, well up from its estimate of the previous year's crop at 9.48 million tonnes, the Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday. With South Africa

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Global demand for zinc, which has been slower than other metals to react to a China-led boom in industrial commodities, should creep higher this year, Goldman Sachs JBWere said on Monday. With global supply drawdowns

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Dubai could establish itself as a bullion hub for the world's gold jewellery industry, but it will not rival London as a wholesale bullion centre, a senior gold industry official said on Monday. Stewart Murray,

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Philippine millers sold on Monday 12,000 tonnes of raw sugar for export, the head of the main industry body said. Jose Maria Zabaleta, executive director of the Philippine Sugar Millers Association, told Reuters the sugar

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