Zimbabwe expects to harvest 2.3 million tonnes of the staple maize grain this year, a 58% jump from the previous season driven by favourable rains, according to a cabinet statement seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
Spanish oil company Cepsa teamed up with vegetable oil processor Apical Group's Bio-Oils unit to build a second-generation biofuels plant in southern Spain, a 1 billion euro ($1.11 billion) project.
T rade in Vietnam's coffee market was hit by a beans shortage as farmers had almost no beans left to offer, traders said on Thursday, while Indonesian farmers refrained from selling hoping the prices could rise in the near future.
Gambian authorities have detected the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a wild bird reserve, the ministry of agriculture said in a statement seen by Reuters on Thursday, less than one week after neighbouring Senegal reported an outbreak of the disease on a poultry farm.