As of October 26, farmers of Ukraine have planted winter crops throughout the areas of 7.3 million ha (89% of the plan). Particularly, 1.1 million ha was planted during the last week, declared the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. Winter wheat was planted throughout 5.5 million ha (91%), winter barley…
As of October 22, farmers of Poltava region harvested 267,4 thousand tons of sugar beets. Poltava region continues sugar beet harvesting campaign, which has been harvested from the area of 9.1 thousand hectares with the average yield of 29.5 ton/ha. 187.2 thousand tons of sweet roots have been carried out of the fields. (Ukrsugar/Business World…
Deputy Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture Taras Vysotskyi says the ministry plans to amend the procedure for consulting agricultural sector to support it. “We’ll definitely coordinate the issue with the sector and specialized associations. Following that, we’ll initiate appropriate changes to the procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers,” he wrote on Facebook.…
Exports of Kazakh flour in the whole season totaled of 1.48 million tons, down by 12% YoY and by 27% compared with the five-year average, the lowest since MY 2007-2008. 97.7 thousand tons was exported in August (-24% MoM, +3% YoY). The top importer in recent years was Afghanistan, which purchased 65% of total flour…
As of October 13, Ukraine harvested 1.5 million tons of sugar beets. This is reported by the Information and Analytical Portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine. Over the last week, the biggest crop volumes were harvested in Vinnytsia (690 thousand tons), Poltava (650.9 thousand tons) and Chernihiv (642.8 thousand tons) regions. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine) …
Bayadera Group, one of the largest alcohol holdings in the Ukrainian market, completed the grape harvesting season in Koblevo (Mykolaiv region) on more than 2,000 hectares, having collected 9,500 tons, down by 9.5% YoY. According to the group’s press release, the harvesting campaign ended on October 7 and lasted for 1.5 months. Almost 70% of…
Ukraine exported 4,060 tons of cheese in January-September, down by 21.1% YoY. According to the State Customs Service, in monetary terms, exports decreased by 16.3%, to $15.61 million. At the same time, import of cheese in the first nine months of 2020 increased 2.3-fold, to 33,740 tons, and in monetary terms 2.2-fold, to $148.86 million.…