The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine greatly surprised or even shocked the market by publishing the final data on oilseeds planted area, particularly that of sunflower – 5.9 million ha. It’s not that the market hasn’t expected such a large sunflower acreage in 2016, but on the contrary. Back in December 2015 UkrAgroConsult estimated that…
Iranian Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said that Tehran was in talks with the Roscosmos corporation on the implementation details of the nuclear project in Iran and was trying to agree on a suitable price. Tehran and Russia’s Roscosmos space corporation agreed on the general design, development and launching of a remote-sensing satellite for the needs…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus forecasts the general harvest of grains and pulses in the current year at the last year level – nearly 8.4 million tons, Leonid Zayats, Minister of Agriculture said. Also, the Minister noted that the public grain reserves would total nearly 1.086 million tons. It…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers approved of a draft resolution facilitating the registration of imported medicines in Ukraine and narrowing it to 10 days. “The adoption of the draft resolution would help to improve the registration of medicines in Ukraine: it will help to relax the registration of medicines that have been registered by authorized agencies…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has agreed on the procedure for keeping the register of the producers of organic products (raw materials). As explained by Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi, the adopted procedure for keeping the register of producers of organic products (raw materials) will not provide anything new in…
The scheduled repair of Nord Stream for the period from August 9 through August 17 has resulted in a rise in Russian gas transit across the Ukrainian gas transport system to Europe by 20%, spokesman of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “Due to repair of Nord Stream gas pumping by Ukraine to…
Precipitation deficit at the background of excessive air temperatures in several Black Sea countries, particularly in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, raise market operators` concerns as to the volume of Black Sea corn supply in 2016/2017. But major attention is focused on Bulgaria and Romania, due to the fact that precipitation quantity has been lower in…