Agribusiness: market research reports

... to favourable weather conditions. We expect little change in the country's output in 2012/13 as moderating global grains prices and low government support prices are likely to discourage farmers from increasing plantings. The livestock sector ...  |  read more...

... to renew the ban on genetically modified Monsanto corn plantings for another year will limit the country's corn yields in the medium term. For dairy, the recent decision by the European Commission to allow contracts ...  |  read more...

... Zambézia provinces. Given that this is slightly less than 2% of the country's total agricultural area, we believe that this poses only a minor risk to production forecasts. However, it will serve to aggravate the ...  |  read more...

... we highlight the downside risks sanctions would pose in terms of consumptiongrowth. Should sanctions stay in place for a drawn-out period of time, we would expect incomes to be hit;in turn, consumers would cut down ...  |  read more...

... problems are expected to hamper production in 2011/12, we remainoptimistic that output will come in around expectations. We forecast expansion of the sector over the longterm and believe tree yields will improve, as will crop ...  |  read more...

... become problematic in the coming weeks, as planting for the season has begun largely onschedule. A key dynamic to watch will be the price of oil. As most of the region imports oil, high pricescould ...  |  read more...

... for which the country is not self-sufficient, in order to replenish stocks and prevent domestic prices from rising. On grains, Egypt has imported massively from the Black Sea region in 2011/12 at low prices and ...  |  read more...

... significant growth in whole milk powder production to slow, but the import demand for WMP, particularly in the Middle East, should bolster production incentives. Good weather, despite the second consecutive La Niña phenomenon, has also ...  |  read more...

... not expect output to fall back to the 2010/11 low and still expect the country's agricultural sector to be driven by grains exports in 2012/13. We believe current Russian import restrictions will have a negative ...  |  read more...

... outstrip consumption and keep it on a healthy incremental path amid sustained government and private investment. The sugar sector is seeing increased investment from the government and the private sector, and an area of promise, ...  |  read more...

... in 2012. Overall, we see promising production prospects for the agriculture sector and we note corn production as an outperformer. Over the longer term, we highlight the dire need for improved agriculture infrastructure to help ...  |  read more...

... business operating environment'. The report looks at the operational risk associated with this industry. Three types of risk are recognized in our analysis. These are: risk arising from within the industry itself (structural risk), risks ...  |  read more...