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Tea was a bonus that came to Georgia from the Mongols and the merchants of the Silk Route. Parts of the Silk Route also became the Great Tea Road. Caravans of hundreds of camels took 16 months to make the 11,000 mile journey from
Full story...The tradition at MAFF, or DEFRA as it is now known, is to panic first and over-react afterwards. It happened on two occasions with Foot and Mouth in the past and more recently with Blue Tongue Disease. In both cases there had
Full story...The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It's not some crazy "cycle theory" I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It's supply and demand. It's simple stuff.
Full story...Bringing the crops through to harvest is difficult enough this century. Weather patterns have created havoc for farmers the breadth of the globe. For the Georgia farmers for whom, against the trends elsewhere, growing conditions
Full story...It was once the great Australian wine boom. Now it’s the great Australian wine crush. For casual observers the switch from euphoria to despair seems to have happened overnight, and could not have come at an odder time given the
Full story...A dual listing in London for less than £85,000? Yes, less than £85,000 and that includes lawyers’ and accountants’ fees as well as the charges made by a broker and by PLUS Markets Group. PLUS is a Recognised Investment Exchange,
Full story...As oil hovers around US$140 a barrel the knee-jerk reaction to yet another shock headline always seems to be to think of the cost of motoring. Rarely in the headlines is an equally important casualty – the cost of fertiliser.
Full story...Palm oil is fast becoming one of the most controversial of the 'soft commodities'. As its price on remains buoyant the industry, once the domain of stuffy old British trading houses, has been recognised as a serious money
Full story...Nigel Lawson, a former politician of some note, kicks off his book about climate change with a reminder that, back in the mid 1970s, when world average temperature seemed to be falling for the first time since the ‘Little Ice
Full story...Last year Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe launched an ambitious agricultural programme, dubbed the “mother of all agricultural seasons”, which he said would see the country regaining its food exporting nation status. Mugabe’s
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