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• Pineapple: a growing industry in Colombia

• Thailand is the third largest rice exporter to Peru, after Uruguay and Brazil

• FDA puts 70 Peruvian companies on its Red List

• Tumaini: application to help diagnose banana diseases in Colombia.

• Peru and China plan to establish bilateral cooperation agreement for agricultural technology development

• Chile declared additional agricultural emergency due to water shortage, covering 5 regions. 

• Agricultural products from Latin America meet with success in China 

• Argentina expects to increase the pork production by 77% and exports by six times in 2020.

• Argentina has started to export lemons to India.

• Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay signed in the Memorandum of Understanding to develop animal health system in the border between the three countries.

• Japan has allowed the import of avocado from Colombia.

• Insect vector of citrus Huanglongbing disease (HLB) detected in Villa de Rosario of Argentina

• Colombia strengthens biosecurity measures due to risk of Fusarium Fungus TR 4 in bananas.

• Chile declares agricultural emergency in Valparaiso due to water shortage

• Argentina announced the establishment of  the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

• Mexico and Colombia aim to export agricultural products to Asia

• Berries have become the third most exported agricultural product of Mexico

• Mexico and United Arab Emirates agree to strengthen trade relations in agricultural and food products

• Hong Kong suspended poultry products import from Mexico due to the outbreak of avian influenza

• MERCOSUR and EU in process of negotiating a trade agreement to exempt import duty for certain types of agricultural products in two years.

• Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia: Latin America’s top three greenhouse gas emitters

• Peruvian Super Food products attract Chinese and Taiwanese importers.

• FAO and OECD foresee the agricultural and livestock production and export situation of Latin America and the Caribbean region over the next decade

• OECD reveals the Argentine agricultural and livestock policies are the world’s most extorted.

• Peru enacted laws to include labeling of food origin and exclude milled rice from export tax. 

• Chile and Peru announced restructuring plan for goverment agencies relating to agriculture. 

• The Mexican fishery industry expresses concern over the gulfweed situation’s effect on lobsters harvesting.

• Argentina adjusts its Argentine Food Code to allow commercialization of Durian in the country

• Mexico increases its tariff-free chicken import quota

• Avian Influenza “AH7N3” found in 15 grounds in Mexico

• Integration of technology in Argentina and Colombia´s agriculture 

• Export of products with “Argentine Food” mark seen tripled

• Coffee price crisis in Latin America

• Colombia aims to be free from FMD by August

• Chile and Vietnam achieved a technical agreement to facilitate their fruit trade

• Mexico will start exporting bananas to China for the first time

• Ministry of Agriculture of Chile launches an application for Monitoring domestic agricultural product prices

• The Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico has implemented measures to prevent African Swine Fever (ASF)

• Argentina’s new market access for pork to China

• "Lychee", Mexico's new export product into the US market

• Colombia plans to amend fishery laws to increase the country's potential

• Argentina revises the Argentine Alimentary Code to increase sanitation safety

• Peruvian farmers demand the government to halt rice importation

• Chile’s Minister of Agriculture revealed the agricultural sector made the highest growth in 2018

• Drought crisis in Central America

• Mexico announced closed shrimp fishing season in natural resources for 2019

• Costa Rica announced plan to increase production of Cocoa

• Mexico still allows the use of pesticides with carcinogenic effects.

• Peru becomes the world’s third biggest fresh grape exporter 

• Mexico and Qatar agreed to open a direct aviation route for transport of agricultural products 

• Chilean and Peruvian Ministers of Agriculture united to sign the agricultural cooperation agreement 

• The Mexican government plans to ban genetically modified crops 

• Colombian bananas’ export volume increased by 2.5% in 2018  

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• Peru aims to export avocado to Asia in 2019

• Latin Americans tend to eat more healthy food

• The Mexican government has implemented the Price Guarantee Policy for 5 agricultural products

• Peru’s agricultural export values increased by 12.4%

• Colombia approved its first Plan for Rice Productivity

• Mexico established SEGALMEX for Food Security Agency

• Argentina declares the agricultural emergency in 4 provinces 

• Mexican avocado invades the US for the Super Bowl