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Canada to boost Indonesia exports to diversify non-U.S. trade, says minister

By Reuters September 25, 2025

Canada aims to establish duty-free access for up to 95 per cent of its exports to Indonesia over the next eight to 12 months, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said, after signing a trade agreement with one of Southeast Asia’s biggest markets and a major importer of Canadian wheat.

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Friday, June 20, 2025. Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via ZUMA Press

News

Federal agriculture minister to visit Indo-Pacific to talk trade

By Geralyn Wichers July 28, 2025

Federal agriculture minister Heath MacDonald is headed to Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to promote Canadian agricultural trade interests.

FILE PHOTO: An aerial photo of a palm oil plantation in Batanghari, Jambi province, Sumatra island, Indonesia November 28, 2018. Antara Foto/Wahdi Septiawan/via REUTERS

Markets, News

Improved yields to increase Indonesia palm oil output

Accounts for more than half of global production

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 15, 2025

Palm oil production in Indonesia is expected to rise in 2025/26 to 47 million tonnes, according to the United States Department of Agriculture attache in Jakarta. Such would be a 1.50 million-tonne increase from the attache's estimate of 45.50 million tonnes produced in 2024/25.

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News, Reuters

Indonesian government tells ranchers to import cattle for school meals program

By Reuters January 8, 2025

Indonesia is encouraging domestic cattle ranchers to import breeding cows, targeting 400,000 head in 2025, to supply meat and milk for the government's free school meals program, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

Livestock, News, Reuters

Indonesia detects African swine fever in most of its provinces

By Reuters December 16, 2024

Multiple cases of African swine fever had been detected in 32 of Indonesia's 38 provinces, an official said on Monday, warning of risks of further spread of a disease that has killed thousands of hogs in the country this year.

File photo of containers at a seaport in Jakarta. (Leolintang/iStock/Getty Images)

News

Agriculture groups praise CEPA trade deal with Indonesia

By Geralyn Wichers December 4, 2024

The Canadian Meat Council says a new trade agreement between Canada and Indonesia holds significant potential for meat exporters.

Implementation of higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, is likely to tighten supplies of the vegetable oil, a leading industry analyst said on Tuesday. Photo: Natt Boonyatecha/iStock/Getty Images

Markets

Higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia to curb palm oil supplies, analyst says

Decrease in available palm oil would be ‘catastrophic’ for global consumers, analyst says

By Reuters October 8, 2024

Implementation of higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, is likely to tighten supplies of the vegetable oil, a leading industry analyst said on Tuesday. Indonesia currently has a mandatory 35 per cent blend of palm oil-based fuel in biodiesel and is seeking to ramp up to biodiesel containing 40 per cent palm oil to cut its energy imports.

Hogs, Livestock

Indonesia confirms African swine fever outbreak

Disease killed over 35,000 hogs on farm

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 10, 2023

Paris | Reuters — Indonesia has reported an outbreak of African swine fever on a farm on the Riau Islands near Singapore, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The outbreak that killed 35,297 pigs in a herd of 285,034 on a farm located on Bulan island was detected on April 1

File photo of fresh palm fruits and palm oil. (Slpu9945/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Weather

USDA’s Indonesia desk predicts increased palm oil production

An El Nino event could weigh on that outlook

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm March 22, 2023

MarketsFarm — Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, is forecast to see a three per cent rise in production in 2023-24, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service post in Jakarta. The country’s USDA post anticipates 46 million tonnes of palm oil production, which would be up from 44.7 during

File photo of a suspension footbridge in Thailand. (Tinnakorn Jorruang/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Canada to boost defence, cyber security in Indo-Pacific policy

New policy document puts focus on 'disruptive' China

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Ismail Shakil November 28, 2022

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada launched its long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy on Sunday, outlining $2.3 billion in spending to boost military and cyber security in the region and vowed to deal with a “disruptive” China while working with it on climate change and trade issues. The plan detailed in a 26-page document said Canada will tighten

Daily Network News

Canadian agriculture’s asks from the 2025 federal budget

China rapeseed meal futures see largest one-day gain in almost three months after Xi–Carney talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

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