Ukraine: Poltava produces 88,000 tons of sugar

The sugar-refining season continues in Poltava region, the Poltava Regonal Military Administration reports. This year, 28.7 thousand hectares of sugar beet were sown in the region, 11.5% of the total area of this crop in Ukraine. Currently, 15.8 thousand hectares of sugar beets have been harvested (55% of the plan), 728.4 thousand tons have been…

Poland: country tops list of EU pumpkin producers

Poland has been the EU’s largest pumpkin producer since 2020, according to a government agriculture support centre. Over the last ten years, pumpkin production in Poland grew 8-fold, to 400,000 tons annually, the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) reported, quoting Eurostat data. According to Eurostat, in the years 2014-2020, Poland’s pumpkin cultivation area grew…

Ukraine: cooperation with Spain in ensuring global food security to be strengthened

The key areas of strengthening economic cooperation between the countries and cooperation in the field of humanitarian demining were discussed during a meeting on October 25 between Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, and Ricardo Lopez-Aranda Jagu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Spain to Ukraine. According…

Ukraine: Kuwait opens market for poultry

Kuwait has opened its market for Ukrainian poultry meat and other poultry products, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection reports. The relevant form of an international certificate and the list of mandatory paperwork that must accompany poultry meat and poultry products exported to the State of Kuwait are published on…

Moldova: table grapes export keeps growing

Table grapes producers record a favorable situation in export. Over the past two weeks, winegrowers managed to increase the quantity and value of grape exports by 32.5% and 38.5%, respectively, compared to the same period of last year. According to data by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), over the last two weeks,…