As of December 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 16.637 million tons (down by 2.2 million tons YoY), the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 3.94 million tons of grains. Wheat formed the major…
According to the data of the customs statistics, in July-November Ukraine supplied 18.8 million tons of grains to foreign markets, up by 6.8% YoY. In particular, the export volumes of wheat reached 10.4 million tons (up by 14%), barley – 4 million tons (up by 17.5%), corn – 4.3 million tons (down by 8.4%), oats…
Last week’s weather featured low night temperatures (down to -15 degrees C) early in the week with adequate snow cover (up to 10-23 cm), a sharp brief (2 days) rise in average daily temperatures to +5 C in the south with full snow melting, their sharp drop to 2-5 C below zero on December 11-13,…
Ambassadors of the Group of Seven (G7) countries have praised the Ukrainian government’s decision to nationalize PrivatBank and expressed their hope for strengthening the country’s banking sector. “We recognize and applaud the leadership of the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the President for their continued…
According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of December 8, 422.6 thousand ha of corn were threshed, or 100% of the plan (422.8 thousand ha). 2224.7 KMT were harvested with the average yield of 5.26 MT/ha. Average corn yield is 4.4% higher than in 2015. As of December 8, winter wheat had been sown at…
Representatives of political, business and expert circles have discussed the progress of Ukrainian energy reforms, the role of new strategic partnership in this area and priorities for 2017 at an international high-level conference on the new EU-Ukraine strategic partnership in energy and the role of business in this process in Brussels. “Having signed the memorandum…