The May reading was 22% below an all-time peak reached in March 2022 following the Ukraine invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - The United Nations food agency’s world price index fell in May to its lowest in two years, as sharp falls in prices of vegetable oils, cereals and dairy outweighed increases for sugar and meat.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 124.3 points in May against a revised 127.7 for the previous month, the agency said on Friday. The May reading marked the lowest since April 2021 and meant the overall index was now 22 per cent below an all-time peak reached in March 2022 following the start of
In a separate report on cereals supply and demand, the FAO forecast world cereal production in 2023 at 2.813 billion tonnes, a 1 per cent increase from 2022 that mainly reflected an expected rise in maize output. REUTERS
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