Egypt's GASC had a very busy week with two tenders and surprising purchases of wheat from France and the U.S. It bought 180,000 MT of French wheat at an average price of $247.40/MT CNF and 55,000 MT of U.S. soft red winter wheat at $244.42/MT CNF.
News Updates Russia announced that its August grain exports have reached the highest level in 10 years at approximately 4.2 MMT. It stated that the major destination was Turkey (18 percent), followed by Egypt (13 percent), Iran (10 percent), South Africa (5 percent) and Israel (5 percent). As a further point, up to 90 percent of the shipments out of the Black Sea are said to be grains. MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS Reports in Iran indicate that the government has purchased a lar...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...