On August 17, the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the Overseas Agricultural Information Express (No. 146)

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1. The wheat planting area in Canada has increased by 1.5% this year to 25 million acres. The sown area of durum wheat increased by 16.2% to 5.7 million acres. It is expected that the status of the world's largest exporter of durum wheat will be maintained, and the proportion of exports will increase from 50% to 60%.

2. The World Bank approved a concessional loan of US$ 200 million to Pakistan to support Pakistan's response to food security problems caused by the outbreak of the locust plague.

3. The Minister of Trade of Kazakhstan stated that Kazakhstan’s largest potential export market is China, and 60% of its export potential will be for the Chinese market. The main export products include pork, beef and other agricultural products, pesticides and machinery products.

4. Argentina exported 17,900 tons of pork in the first half of this year, an increase of 55% over the same period last year. The main destination was China, followed by Russia and Hong Kong.

5. Egypt invested 1 billion US dollars to start large-scale sugar and strategic crop production and construction industrial projects, including the construction of the world's largest edible sugar production plant, and plans to reach an annual sugar output of 900,000 tons by 2022 .

6. The Brazilian Association of Grain Exporters ( ANEC ) stated that in the first seven months of this year, Brazil exported a total of 69.8 million tons of soybeans, an increase of 36% over the same period last year; the export of soybeans for the whole year was 78 million tons. In August, it is expected to export 6.72 million tons of soybeans and 6.32 million tons of corn, both increased by 33% compared with the same period of last year; exports of soybean meal are 1.49 million tons.

7. In June of this year, Canada exported 820 million Canadian dollars in agricultural products to China , an increase of 60% year-on-year; imported agricultural products from China was 160 million Canadian dollars, an increase of 30% year-on-year.

8. India's2020 autumn planting area of sugar cane will reach 5.18 million hectares, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year. The 2020/2021 sugar output is expected to reach 30.5 million tons, an increase of 12% over the previous year.

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