On July 10, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs website published the Overseas Agriculture Information Express (No. 133).

1. The EU bans two Brazilian group companies exporting poultry meat to the EU. The European Commission revoked the licenses of 12 Brazilian subsidiaries of BRF and SHB Group to export poultry meat to the EU, because the EU found a forged laboratory certificate in two on-site inspections of the above companies and considered that it is fraudulent incident. The European Court of Justice has confirmed the EU’s import ban on the two Brazilian poultry producers.

2. The area of winter barley in France has decreased and the output has plummeted. The Statistics Office of the French Ministry of Agriculture has updated its forecast for large areas and yields in the winter of 2020. According to the data on July 1, output is estimated at 7.8 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 15.7%, mainly due to a decline in yield of 790 kg/ha.

3. The Italian Agricultural Payment Agency provides 20 million euros in aid funds for the corn, soybean and other pulse industries. The aid fund is issued for a period of 2 years, of which 11 million euros are used for the corn industry and 9 million euros are used for the plant protein industry, namely soybean and other legume industries.

4. The EU continues to develop fishery cooperation with Mauritania. The EU has extended its existing fisheries partnership agreement with Mauritania by one year. According to the agreement, the EU fleet is allowed to fish shrimp, benthic fish, tuna and small pelagic fish in Mauritanian waters, with an annual catch of about 287,000 tons. In addition to the fees paid by the EU fleet, the EU also pays 61.625 million euros in financial contributions each year, of which more than 4 million euros are used to support Mauritania's fisheries policy, especially to improve research and fisheries management.

5. The Indian Cabinet approved the establishment of a 1 trillion-rupee rural infrastructure fund. The implementation period of the project is 10 years, with 100 billion rupees invested in the first year and 300 billion rupees each in the next three years, mainly used to support agricultural enterprises, start-ups and farmers' organizations to invest in agricultural storage and logistics facilities. The Indian government provides a 3% discount and the repayment period can be up to 7 years.

6. India extended the free welfare food program until the end of November. The plan provides 800 million poor people with 5 kilograms of wheat or rice and 1 kilogram of beans for free every month, aiming to ensure that the poor people will not go hungry during the new crown epidemic crisis. In the next 5 months, about 2.03 million tons of grain and 970,000 tons of beans will need to be provided free of charge. For the first time since India’s independence, food was distributed free of charge for up to 8 months.