According to the regional agricultural departments, as of September 1, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout 3.263 million ha, or 21.3% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 5.1 million tons of grains, up 2 times YoY. The average yield totaled 1.56…
According to the official statistics figures, in July Ukraine produced 148.5 thousand tons of flour, down by 7% YoY. Ukraine dropped production volumes of all types of flour products. In particular, the production of wheat and wheat-rye flour decreased by 4% to 141.2 thousand tons, of flour from other grains – by 41% to 7.2…
In 2015/2016 MY PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine shipped more than 40 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets, up 2 times YoY, the press-service of the company declared. Also, SFGCU PJSC started exporting products with shipload lots. Since the beginning of 2016, the company shipped more than 12 thousand tons of…
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is determined to speed up the process of associating the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU, includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan) with China’s Silk Road project, the EEC press-service said in a statement. The EEC has launched relevant talks with China. The parties conducted the first round of talks on the…
On September 1, Belarus has temporarily banned pork imports from Volyn and Vinnytsia regions of Ukraine due to African swine fever (ASF). The Veterinary and Food Control Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus has stated this on its website. According to the data from the World Organization for…
Belarus’ foreign trade deficit stood at $1.934 billion in January-July against $1.457 billion in January-July 2015, according to the National Statistics Committee (Belstat). Commodity exports decreased by 18.6% YoY in January-July to $13.116 billion, while imports decreased by 14.4% MoM to $15.05 billion. Exports from Belarus included $7.761 billion worth of supplies to the CIS…
Belarus and Georgia intend to increase their trade up to $200 million in 2017. Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusy made the statement after the national expo of Belarus in Georgia. Mikhail Rusy noted: “The heads of state have given instructions to reach the trade turnover of $200 million by late 2017. It is…