World vanilla crops hit by cyclone
The key ingredient in the most popular ice cream in the world faces a rise in price, already at a 10 year high, as the worst cyclone in two decades hits Madagascar, the leading producer of vanilla.
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Suppliers to China benefit from double digit growth
European food ingredients companies working in the rapidly emerging Chinese food market can look forward to getting a slice of the €135 billion trade exchange between the two blocs.
Growing fears over soy disease
Fearing the invasion of the devasting soybean rust, the American Soybean Association (ASA) has repeated its call for a temporary ban on South American soybean imports, despite assurances from the Bush administration that trade would not be the cause...