| The following GAIN reports were released on April 9, 2025. _______ FAS Rangoon forecasts Burma's rice and corn production to increase in MY 2025/26 due to improvement in average yield, driven by favorable weather and flood recovery compared to MY 2024/25. Burma's wheat imports for MY 2025/26 are expected to remain below pre-COVID and pre-coup levels due to challenges in obtaining import licenses. However, exporters and importers face ongoing uncertainty due to the regime's foreign currency controls, delays in import licensing, and the continued conflict between the regime and ethnic armed forces. The Canadian food and beverage processing sector is the largest manufacturing sector in Canada in terms of both GDP and employment, representing over 16 percent of Canada's manufacturing GDP and 17 percent of Canada's manufacturing jobs. Food and beverage processing sales totaled $116 billion USD in 2024, with the majority of facilities located in Ontario and Quebec. Canada's food and beverage processing industry is deeply integrated with the United States, as Canada's processors import food products, ingredients, and essential inputs for further processing and then reexport final products back into the United States. As a result of recent trade tensions, the Government of Canada is working with the sector to promote voluntary "Product of Canada" or "Made in Canada" claims on food labels to make it easy for Canadian consumers to spot products with Canadian input. FAS Accra (Post) forecasts Ghana's MY 2025/2026 (July-June) wheat imports at 1.0 million metric tons (MMT), up five percent from the MY 2024/2025 estimate of 950,000 MT. Importers are set to benefit from the new John Mahama-led government's business-friendly budget statements and economic policy to build up stocks. Ghana does not produce wheat. Post foresees Ghanaian production numbers for corn and rice improving in MY 2025/2026. Caution flags are raised, however, as the Ghana Meteorological Agency is forecasting normal-to-below normal rainfall, and possibly longer dry spells for most parts of the country in 2025. In MY 2025/2026, Ghana's imports of wheat, corn, and rice are all forecast up based on increased consumption and insufficient domestic supplies. The new Ghanaian government is abolishing some taxes and levies that impact imports costs. Marketing Year (MY) 2025/26 is forecast to see record low plantings of rapeseed oilseeds (rapeseed) in the United Kingdom (UK), down below 250 thousand hectares, with production falling below 750 thousand metric tons. Growers have become disillusioned with rapeseed after suffering from low yields, poor growing conditions, and pest pressures in previous years and have consequently turned to alternative land uses with more reliable returns, such as guaranteed contractual payments from UK agri-environment schemes. Recovering livestock numbers in MY 2025/26, particularly for pigs and poultry, are forecast to drive higher feed demand for both rapeseed and soybean meal. For more information, or for an archive of all FAS GAIN reports, please visit gain.fas.usda.gov/. | 
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