Britain's fast-growing organic chocolate maker Green & Black's, a unit of Cadbury, is persuading cocoa growers to switch to organic from conventional afarming in order to sustain its expansion plans. Green & Black's is the

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Britain's fast-growing organic chocolate maker Green & Black's, a unit of Cadbury, is persuading cocoa growers to switch to organic from conventional afarming in order to sustain its expansion plans. Green & Black's is the

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World commodity prices should fall in both 2006 and 2007 with market surpluses seen developing in beverage, oilseed, sugar and industrial raw material markets, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Monday. The EIU said

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Oil prices held below $60 on Tuesday after two sessions of deep losses as mild weather dampened demand across the Northern Hemisphere. US light crude oil settled up 24 cents at $59.71 a barrel on

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Cocoa producing countries should keep a database logging the condition and age of trees in order to plan their output, a German farm ministry official said on Tuesday. "It is necessary that producing countries undertake

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Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2006 485.00 +5.00 February 2006/April 2006 483.00 +3.00 May 2006/July 2006 483.00 +3.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro tonne fob ex-mill

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Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2006 485.00 +5.00 February 2006/April 2006 483.00 +3.00 May 2006/July 2006 483.00 +3.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro tonne fob ex-mill

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Higher-than-expected US soyabean yields and a lagging pace in exports should lead the US Agriculture Department to raise its estimates of this year's soya production and ending stocks, analysts said. "This is one where we

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London coffee futures touched a two-month high on the most active January contract on Tuesday, boosted mainly by speculative buying, traders said. "It is mainly speculative and option buying in both New York and London.

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London Metal Exchange (LME) prices drifted mostly lower by the close of open-outcry trade on Tuesday but remained in ranges despite a firmer dollar and talk of Chinese copper sales, dealers said. Three months futures

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