Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Afghanistan’s takeover by the Taliban could slow the development work on Iran’s Chabahar port which has been a cooperative project of Iran, India, and Afghanistan. Experts have commented that the Taliban would be more likely to support the use of Pakistan ports rather than one in Iran. Afghanistan also has a very small border area with China that could see an expansion of joint trade if China recognizes the Taliban government. Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Grain Elevators has seen profits increase by 33.1 percent as poultry farmers switched to compound feed due to the shortage of raw materials for on-farm feed production. The company also reported that its p...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.