Jordan continued to issue, cancel and reissue its wheat and barley tenders due to a lack of participation by international sellers. It is seeing some tenders with no bids whatsoever as suppliers are very concerned about its contract details and recent rejections of wheat that most believe were not justified.
Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS The Turkey/Russia situation is shaking the wheat market as international grain traders watch to see if Russia will stop exporting wheat to Turkey, its largest buyer. There has been no official sanction on those exports, but both sellers and buyers are very concerned that this could happen in coming days. The trade reports no new sales are being booked but that existing bus...
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...
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...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
