The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) is seeking public help for a product recall of a strawberry seed growing kit.
Volatility in the New Zealand dollar has cost exporters an estimated NZ$6.6 billion during the past two and a-half years, according to a report in the Otago Daily Times citing the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA).
The national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union, Paul Howes, has likened China to a predator intent on wrecking Australian manufacturing and says it is time the emerging giant played by the rules of international trade, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Producers of cage eggs are being warned to expect an outraged mob of consumers and animal activists utterly disgusted at the appalling treatment of battery hens on farms around New Zealand, according to Voxy.co.nz.
The fruit and vegetable juice market in China was up until year 2000 an undeveloped one but in the past decade, the industry has experienced strong growth with the trend expecting to continue, according to Western Farm Press.com.
New Zealand’s Zespri Gold kiwifruit is all set to take on the European market as the season begins with targets of more shops and high quality point of sales material, Zespri’s Jean Louis Warnimont wrote in FreshPlaza.com.
Leading global container carrier AP Moeller-Maersk A/S and 14 other shipping lines intend to raise rates on Asia-US routes beginning on 1 January 2012 to cope with industry-wide losses caused by a price war and overcapacity, according FIS.com.
Emirates expects its fleet size to reach more than 250 aircraft by 2020, up from 162 currently, according to GulfNews.com.
Flooding in Thailand over the past months has inundated nearly 14 million acres of land, at least 740,000 acres of which is farmland, driving up Thai commodities prices both domestically and in the export markets, according to a report by FreshPlaza.com.
Nigeria and China are set to form stronger ties as both countries after China agreed to explore making Nigeria a major manufacturing zone for China’s key industrial enterprises, according to a report in Taiwan News.com.tw.
Japan has indicated it wants to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership regional free-trade pact but an economist says this could impact New Zealand’s exports to Japan, TV3 reported.
The world’s airlines have scheduled 4% more capacity on 2.5% more flights in November 2011, marking six consecutive months of growth compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from OAG, a UBM Aviation brand.
Saturday to push back against China’s trade practices, insisting Beijing stop poaching US intellectual property and allow its currency to rise, according to a Reuters report.
German fruit supplier BayWa Aktiengesellschaft is making a takeover play for the 114-year-old horticulture giant Turners & Growers, according to the NZHerald.co.nz.
Global demand for frozen potato products (comprised mostly of frozen fries) is forecast up 5% from last year, according to FreshPlaza.com, citing a report by PotatoPro.
The United Nations has estimated that the cost of piracy on the global shipping industry could be as high as $12 billion, according to Arabian Business.com.
The dairy demand from developing countries such as China and India is sustainable, underpinned by a rising middle class in these countries, Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden told the Irish Independent.
New Zealand apple exports to Australia are set to fall far short of expectations, with some growers pulling out due to quarantine restrictions and prohibitive costs, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The Philippines, one of the world’s largest labour exporters, has ordered a ban on the deployment of workers to 41 countries — including war-torn Afghanistan and booming India — where Filipino officials say there are inadequate protections against labour abuse, according to GulfNews.
China’s trade volume has surpassed a historic level of US$3 trillion but analysts have forecast a grim trade outlook in light of growing global uncertainties, according to Xinhua News.