The beginning of 2016/2017 season was characterized by constantly raised grain production estimates. Revision of harvesting area expectations and record high grain yields were the main drivers of crop estimates increase. Rosstat informed that winter crops losses were only 364 thousand ha during wintering. This is 3.1% of total planted area compared to February estimates…
Gazpromneft Bitumen Materials, operator of the Gazprom Neft bitumens business, has seen sales of its polymer-bitumen binders increase to 39,000 in H1, up 2 times YoY. This volume of polymer-bitumen binders would typically be used for laying an average 900 kilometres of high-quality road surfacing, the useful life of which would be twice as long…
In January-August Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 1,004,100 tons of cargo (down by 9.4% YoY), the company says. Transshipment of import cargo totaled 15,200 tons (-37.4%), exports – down almost 2-fold to 182,200 tons, short-sea traffic – up by 3.2% to 762,100 tons. Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port OJSC is a multi-profile stevedoring company of…
In the 2015/2016 marketing year rapeseed gross production in Russia reached slightly more than 1000 KMT. This result was obtained in conditions of decreasing planted area for the second consecutive season to 1038 thousand ha compared with record 1326 thousand ha in the 2013/2014 marketing year. In addition to acreage reduction, the productivity has also…
As of September 5, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 34.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 27.7 million ha), or 73% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 95.6 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of August 31, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 5.366 million tons, down by 7% YoY (5.781 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 4.494 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…
The volatility of the currency and commodity markets, as well as high debt in developed countries are constraints for the growth of the world economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at an informal meeting of the leaders of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) on the sidelines of G20 summit. He said that “unfortunately,…