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Morocco has restricted tomato exports since late February with a total ban in place from last week until Thursday to lower domestic prices, the head of the country's main fruit and vegetable exporters' group said on Friday.

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New York cocoa futures on ICE were consolidating just below the previous session's more than two-year high on Friday while raw sugar prices eased.

Brazilian sugar group UNICA estimated on Friday that mills in the country's centre-south region will crush around 5 million tonnes of sugarcane in the second half of March, nearly five times more than in the same period in 2022.

Chicago corn hit a three-week high on Friday, boosted by another large Chinese flash sale that solidified continued demand, with wheat and soybeans also firming as the week closes.

Russia has no plans to halt wheat exports but wants exporters to ensure prices paid to farmers are high enough to cover average production costs, two sources familiar with the matter, told Reuters on Friday.

Drought in Spain, the world's largest olive oil producer, is likely to halve the country's output this year compared with the previous year, official estimates from the European Commission show, pushing prices up.

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Tyson Foods Inc gave its chicken suppliers two months' notice of its plan to shut a Virginia processing plant in May, raising concerns among farmers and legal experts about the company's compliance with antitrust regulations requiring it to give 90 days' notice before ending a contract.

The security situation around the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv will have to improve before its ports can be included in a deal allowing the safe export of Ukrainian grain, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday.

The El Nino weather pattern could boost yields in the second half of the year for U.S. cotton farmers, who were forced to abandon a big chunk of their cropland in 2022 after one of the worst droughts in years.

China regards New Zealand as a key partner and has confidence in stable bilateral ties, China's top diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday, just as the South Pacific nation showed signs of taking a harder stance on China's presence in the region.

Grain trade association Coceral on Friday increased its forecast of this year's soft wheat production in the European Union and Britain to 144.5 million tonnes from 143.3 million estimated in December.

China's and Brazil's agriculture have their own characteristics and there is a large space for cooperation, China's agriculture ministry said on Friday, after a meeting between the two sides' agriculture ministers.

Chicago soybeans extended losses on Friday to a five-month low as a bumper Brazilian harvest was seen flowing onto export markets, while wheat rebounded as a report Russia may consider halting exports revived uncertainty about Black Sea supply.

Investors managing more than $4 trillion in assets have told European chemical companies they must set out a path to move away from fossil fuels, saying that the sector's role in greenhouse gas emissions has been overlooked.

China's top diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday that China sees New Zealand as an important partner and has confidence in the certainty and stability in bilateral relations.

Nickel shot up on Friday after inventories in China tumbled, while some speculators took advantage of the metal's recent low price and others scrambled to cover bearish positions.