Rapeseed harvesting is complete in Ukraine. According to UkrAgroConsult estimates, rapeseed production is likely to be 30% lower than last year. Reduction of harvesting area due to significant winter rapeseed losses (234 thousand ha) was the main reason for production decline. Nevertheless, rapeseed average yields appeared to be higher than expected and even higher than…
As of August 29, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.266 million tons of grains and pulses throughout the areas of 9.793 million ha, or 68% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.91 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes…
The Government is engaged into work to prepare for the introduction of Ukraine’s international trade support mechanisms that will help promote domestic producers on the international arena. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced this during the meeting of the National Council of Reforms under the chairmanship of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Monday.…
An article “Tajikistan Mulls EEU Membership, Feels Pull of Russia” posted on EurasiaNet.org’s website notes that many Tajiks oppose economic integration with Russia Abdufattoh Ghoib, the head of Tajikistan’s Customs Service, announced on July 19, that the Tajik government was considering making an application to enter the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Ghoib’s declaration followed an…
The price of Russian crude oil supplies to Belarus dropped by 25.4% YoY in January-June to $208, Belarus’ National Statistical Committee (Belstat) said in a report. Belarus’ expenditures on crude oil imports from Russia decreased by 24.8% YoY to $2.398 billion. In H1 2016 Belarus purchased 11.522 million tons of Russian crude, up by 0.9%…
Russia plans to increase grain exports to Palestine from 70 thousand tons to 250-300 thousand tons, the Russian-Palestinian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation declared. The Palestinian party is interested in cooperation in the sphere of energy, health care, culture and agriculture. The first contract with the Palestinians for the supply of 70 thousand…
Russia will abandon the wheat export duty until July 2018, Deputy Agriculture Minister Dzhambulat Khautov said. “The export duty on grain will be abolished in Russia until July 2018”, he said. Khautov said that the ministry’s proposal to abandon the Russian wheat export duty had been approved at a meeting held by Deputy Prime Minister…