As of August 29, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 30.8 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 25.7 million ha), or 65.3% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 89.3 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
The Russian central bank could reduce its key rate at the next meeting on September 16, CEO of the country’s biggest lender Sberbank German Gref said. “If inflation goes down, there are chances”, Gref said. The board of directors of the ruler decided on July 29, to keep the interest rate at 10.5% after a…
According to official data, as of August 26, Russian farmers had threshed 29.2 million ha (61.9%) of grains and legumes against 25.7 million ha on the same date in 2015. 86.2 MMT was harvested with average yield of 2.95 MT/ha (in 2015 – 69.3 MMT with 2.7 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 18.1 million ha…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stated that the investors from the South-East Asia are willing to invest in the Ukrainian economy. The President said this at the meeting of the National Council of Reforms. “We have not only European investors. Our talks during the visits to the South-East Asia show that today the investors are…
Plans have been made to implement a pilot project of the United Nations Organization to develop social entrepreneurship in several areas in Grodno region. The information was released during the latest meeting of UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Sanaka Samarasinha and Grodno region Governor Vladimir Kravtsov. Sanaka Samarasinha explained: “It is a new project that…
Kazakhstan intends to gather over 100 participating countries and over 5 million visitors during the EXPO 2017 that will take place in Astana, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Yergali Bulegenov said. As many as 97 countries and 18 international organizations have confirmed they are going to participate in the EXPO 2017.…
In 2016 Moldova will decrease the harvest of sunflower seed by 30-40% compared with the previously expected indices, due to weather conditions, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova declared. Agrarians noted that the oilseed yield dropped below 2 tons/ha, while the previously expected level totaled 3.5 tons/ha. July drought and heat became…