Vietnam, the world's second-largest coffee producer after Brazil, said higher global oil prices this year have pushed up its production cost by 20-25 percent to around 10,000 dong (63 US cents) per kilograms of beans.

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South Africa's gold production for the first half of 2005 declined by 12.4 percent to 147.9 tonnes from the same period last year, with total sales revenue also falling, the department of minerals said. Sales

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The Thai grains trade is expected to remain sluggish over the next week with importers not keen on buying with domestic poultry demand weak following new bird flu outbreaks, traders said on Tuesday. Argentine high-protein

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The Karachi Port handled 46,568 tonnes of cargo including 35,980 tonnes import and 10,588 tonnes export cargo including 1,264 containers during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Tuesday. The cargo comprised of 42,368

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China's biggest shipping and ports firm, Cosco Group, will take a stake in the second phase of Shanghai's $12 billion deepwater port and more than double container shipping capacity by 2010, its top executive said

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Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade closed lower on Monday and new contract lows were set amid harvest of a big US corn crop, traders said. "The yield reports are still good and

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South African maize prices fell on Tuesday on the promise of good rains, a trend set to dominate the market in coming months as the country's grain heartland heads into the summer wet season, traders

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Rising biofuel demand means EU rapeseed oil imports are likely to rise more strongly than expected this season while the EU will increasingly use soyaoil for fuel, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecasts. The EU

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Zambia's chief copper producer Konkola will use $400 million from parent Vedanta Resources to expand its smelter and improve underground operations to increase production, the company said. Konkola Copper Mines Plc's Nkana smelter, Zambia's largest,

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Ukrainian farms have harvested 97 percent of the 2005 sunflower area, with the crop reaching a record 4.743 million tonnes bunker weight, the Farm Ministry said on Tuesday. Official data showed farmers had harvested 3.503

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