The issue of privatization of United Grain Company in 2016 is not active, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev declared. According to him, it is a strategic state-owned company with a controlling block of shares by the government, so to date the issue is not under consideration, and it is untimely.…
Russian Grain Union appealed to the government of Russia to cancel the current export duties on wheat. The reporting proposal appears in the letter of the Union, addressed to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. According to Russian Grain Union, in 2016 grain harvest in Russia will reach 112 million tons, including…
During the first 6 months of 2016, the sea ports Yeysk, Kavkaz, Novorossiysk, Taman, Temryuk and Tuapse shipped for exports 474 vessels with grains and its by-products, at the volume of more than 7.4 million tons, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) declared. In particular, the share of wheat in the general…
An online store selling only locally made products will be launched in Kazakhstan. Talgat Assylbayev, executive director of the Commodity Producers and Entrepreneurs Association “Made in Kazakhstan”, announced the plans to launch the online store. “Together with the Kazakhstani Association of High-Technology, Energy-Efficient and Innovative Companies we are working on the project of the online…
Kazakhstan’s electric locomotives assembly factory (Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty) will start production of high-speed passenger locomotives in autumn, the press service of Kazakhstan Railways (Kazakhstan Temir Zholy) said. The high-speed locomotives will be able to make 200 kilometers per hour. Such an electric locomotive – KZ4AT, designed by the French company Alstom – was successfully tested…
As of July 1, the registered carry-over stocks of oilseeds in Kazakhstan totaled 260.465 thousand tons, including 21.298 thousand tons in farming households, the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported. In particular, sunflower seed stocks totaled 104 thousand tons, flaxseed – 84.3 thousand tons, soybeans – 30.821…
“The deposits can not be given to investors through an auction”, member of the Association of Miners and Geologists Kartaybek Mukambetov said at a round table discussion. According to him, during the years of independence, Kyrgyzstan has failed to establish mining production management. “The created committee has not yet shown an effective work. The State…