EU farmers will keep soft wheat area the same for the 2017 harvest despite the depressant of weak prices, Strategie Grains said, citing a limited switching of land to rapeseed instead. The influential analysis group in its first detailed forecast for EU cereals sowings for next year’s harvest pegged soft wheat area at 24.3 million…
Danosha company will invest next year in equipment that will enable producing soybean oil and cake right at the plant. Over the recent years, soybeans have been sown in the test mode to check out if the local conditions are suitable for this crop. In late October Danosha finished soybean harvesting with a yield of…
The Swiss company Risoil S.A. declared its readiness to continue investing in construction of a grain terminal in SE Commercial Sea Port of Chernomorsk, the press-service of the company reported. In 2014 the company started construction of a grain terminal Risoil Terminal. In March the terminal was put into operation, and Risoil launched the first…
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of November 10, 759.9 thousand ha of sunflower had been threshed, or 99.9% of the plan. 1699.7 KMT had been threshed with an average yield of 2.24 MT/ha. Soybean had been threshed from 14.4 thousand ha, or 99.3% of the harvested area (14.5 thousand ha). 18.6 KMT of…
Representatives of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan met in Ashgabat to discuss a draft protocol on cooperation in safety of shipping in the Caspian Sea. The agreement creates a legal basis for cooperation between the parties in the fight against terrorism, organized crime, arms and drugs trafficking, smuggling, human trafficking, illegal immigration, as well…
Azerbaijan will supply 500,000 bottles of wine to China, the Economy Ministry said. The ministry said that the agreement on the supply was reached during the visit of an export mission of Azerbaijani entrepreneurs to Hong Kong and Guangzhou on November 9-15. During the visit, the Azerbaijani entrepreneurs took part in two international exhibitions of…
Total production at the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) was on average 644,000 barrels per day (b/d) (over 176 million barrels or 24 million tons in total) in January-September, same as in January-September 2015, BP Azerbaijan has said. According to the BP Azerbaijan report, 53,000 b/d of that volume accounted for Chirag platform, 149,000 b/d – Central…