According to regional agricultural departments, as of September 21, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout 11.357 million ha, or 73.9% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 16.974 million tons of grains, up by 6.7 million tons YoY. The average yield totaled…
Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Askar Myrzakhmetov banned sturgeon fishing in all the regions of the country, Agriculture Ministry said. This measure is aimed at combating the illegal fish trade. In order to combat the illegal fish trade, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to introduce a new automated information system, which will monitor…
According to official data, as of September 19, grain crops had been threshed from 10526.3 thousand ha, which was 68.5% of the plan. 15719.3 KMT was harvested with the average yield of 1.49 MT/ha. On the same date of 2015, 9546.4 KMT of grain had been harvested from 8279.5 thousand ha with the average yield…
Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats named industrial cooperation as a promising line in the interaction between Belarus and Tajikistan as he spoke at the conference held on September 22, to mark the 20th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Tajikistan and Belarus. Leonid Zayats took note of the project to organize the assembling…
Indian importers have purchased around 76,000 tons of Ukrainian-origin wheat in the past couple of weeks as India increases its wheat imports after a poor crop. One shipment of around 51,000 tons was purchased for September shipment and another of 25,000 tons was bought for October shipment. It is possible that more could have been…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says vulnerabilities of Belarus’ economy remain elevated. The IMF made a statement to this effect in the Staff Report prepared by a staff team of the IMF for the 2016 Article IV consultation. “The economy is expected to contract further this year and next, reflecting still-weak balance sheets and structural…
Russian gas giant Gazprom is preparing a feasibility study for development of three licensed blocks in Bolivia and may receive operator contracts for the blocks without any competition, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said. In June Gazprom and Bolivian state-owned oil and gas company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) signed a roadmap for implementation of projects…