Despite the systematic increase in corn production volumes in Ukraine, the tendency of corn oil production mainly showed downward dynamics. According to the statistics figures, in 2015 Ukraine produced 7.97 thousand tons of the commodity, down by 35% compared with the index in 2011 (12.26 thousand tons). It should be noted that the reporting market…
Cargo volume handled at the terminals of Port of Odessa (Odessa Marine Trade Port) in January-July totaled 13.6 million tons, down by 4% YoY, the Center for Transport Strategies (CTS) reported, citing Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). There was a twofold drop in the segment of liquid bulk cargo to 1.17 million tons. The volume…
The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine greatly surprised or even shocked the market by publishing the final data on oilseeds planted area, particularly that of sunflower – 5.9 million ha. It’s not that the market hasn’t expected such a large sunflower acreage in 2016, but on the contrary. Back in December 2015 UkrAgroConsult estimated that…
Iranian Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said that Tehran was in talks with the Roscosmos corporation on the implementation details of the nuclear project in Iran and was trying to agree on a suitable price. Tehran and Russia’s Roscosmos space corporation agreed on the general design, development and launching of a remote-sensing satellite for the needs…
According to territorial directorates of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), in July Russia exported 3.6 million tons of grains and by-products on the basis of issued phytosanitary certificates, up by 12% YoY. In particular, grains formed the major share of the reporting foreign supplies – 3.14 million tons (up by 8%…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus forecasts the general harvest of grains and pulses in the current year at the last year level – nearly 8.4 million tons, Leonid Zayats, Minister of Agriculture said. Also, the Minister noted that the public grain reserves would total nearly 1.086 million tons. It…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers approved of a draft resolution facilitating the registration of imported medicines in Ukraine and narrowing it to 10 days. “The adoption of the draft resolution would help to improve the registration of medicines in Ukraine: it will help to relax the registration of medicines that have been registered by authorized agencies…