Turkey to boost trade with Russia

Turkey and Russia plan to boost their trade to $100 billion a year, Turkey’s Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci said. “Our goal is to bring bilateral trade up to $100 billion a year. We can reach it in several years”, he explained. According to the minister, issues of trade and economic relations between the two…

Ukraine: poor weather to cut winter grain area

Torrential rains across most of Ukrainian regions after a severe drought could leave around 1.2 million acres of winter grain area unsown and winter wheat is under major threat, a senior state weather forecaster said. Ukraine’s winter wheat harvest is highly dependent on moisture content in the soil during the autumn sowing, air temperatures in…