Food stamps, the major US antihunger program, would bear one-fourth of $3.7 billion in Agriculture Department budget cuts under a package unveiled by a senior House Republican on Thursday. Agriculture Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte recommended

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Vietnam's rice output will fall to 35.8 million tonnes this year from an earlier expected volume of 36.9 million as Typhoon Damrey, which swept through Vietnam last month, destroyed crop in large areas, a government

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Raw sugar prices closed flat on Thursday in a range-bound session featuring small speculators, with operators saying the market will likely stay in a band due to a dearth of leads, brokers said. The New

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Soyabean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade closed steady on Thursday in quiet trade, supported by strength in soyabean meal on smaller-than-expected US soyameal stocks reported by the US Census Bureau, traders said. November

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Chicago Board of Trade rough rice futures closed higher on Thursday on a technical bounce after falling about 40 cents per hundredweight since mid-October, traders said. "There was no follow-through from the poor technical settlement

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A plan by the Philippines to become one of the first nations to introduce genetically modified rice may be delayed by several years, despite an aggressive start. The country is unlikely to commercialise a transonic

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Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended down on Friday, with traders expecting little business in the week ahead due to holidays. Volume on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives was light at 1,581 lots of 25 tonnes

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South African maize prices dipped on Friday on forecasts for rain over the key breadbasket of the Free State province but losses were capped by a softer rand and the fact that little if any

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The Karachi Port handled 132,584 tonnes of cargo including 105,941 tonnes import and 26,643 tonnes export cargo including 4,094 containers during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The cargo comprised of 78,648

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Spot basis values for hard red winter wheat were unchanged on Friday, with country dealings thin as farmers focused on fieldwork, merchants said. "It's awful quiet," said one Goodland, Kansas, wheat dealer. Farmers were still

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