Nibulon retains its positions as the largest exporter of grains from Ukraine. In 2015/2016 MY the company supplied the highest volumes of grains to foreign markets in six recent years – 4.66 million tons, the General Director of Nibulon LLC Oleksiy Vadaturskyy declared. The company increased its exports by almost 14% (572 thousand tons) compared…
As of September 12, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 39.03 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10.01 million ha, or 70% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.9 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 reached 38.1…
During the first ten days of September weather was rather unfavorable for preparation of soil to start the winter rapeseed sowing. The reason was higher average daily temperature, which exceeded the norm by 1.1-6 C, contributing to soil evaporation, and lack of precipitations. Sufficient moistening of upper soil layer (21-30 mm) was observed only in…
16 regions of Ukraine started the planting campaign of winter grains. As of September 12, agrarians planted winter grains throughout 298 thousand ha (4% of the plan), as opposed to 293 thousand ha on the same date last year, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, Ukraine planted winter wheat…
Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of September 7, 599 thousand ha or 10% of the intended area (5905 thousand ha) was threshed, up by 27% YoY (472 thousand ha). 1170 KMT of sunflower was obtained with the average yield of 1.95 MT/ha. In 2015 over the same period 913 KMT of sunflower was…
The U.S. has lifted some of its sanctions imposed on Russian defense company Rosoboronexport so that the countries are able to cooperate under a helicopter project, Zamir Kabulov, director of the Second Asian Department at Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, said. “We supplied 63 Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan in the previous year and in the year…
Several Internet projects of the Runet, the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, have beaten the country’s biggest TV channels by audience coverage, according to TNS study for June. Google led by monthly audience coverage with 88% and was followed by its local rival Yandex with 87.2% and social network VKontakte with 86%. YouTube had 82.7%…