The passenger traffic at Minsk Airport grew by 10.7% YoY in August to 422,600 people, the airport authorities said in a release. In August Minsk Airport provided service support to 2,270 flights. All in all, in January-August the passenger traffic at Minsk Airport totaled 2.254 million (+19.7%), with service support provided to 15,043 flights (+15.8%).…
In August Ukraine imported 16 KMT of palm oil against 12.3 KMT in July 2016 and 12.8 KMT in August 2015. Total volume imported in 2015/2016 (September-August) was 24% higher than over the last season. Thus, total imports equaled 181.2 KMT against 145.7 KMT in 2015/2016. Malaysia and Indonesia traditionally remained the main suppliers of…
The Belarusian confectionery factory Kommunarka pays increasing attention to the Chinese market, Kommunarka Director General Ivan Danchenko said. Ivan Danchenko said that Belarusian confectionery products were underrepresented in China. This country accounts for a small share of Kommunarka’s exports. However, in recent years, the company has been paying increasing attention to this market. To attract…
According to regional agricultural departments, as of September 21, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout 11.357 million ha, or 73.9% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 16.974 million tons of grains, up by 6.7 million tons YoY. The average yield totaled…
Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Askar Myrzakhmetov banned sturgeon fishing in all the regions of the country, Agriculture Ministry said. This measure is aimed at combating the illegal fish trade. In order to combat the illegal fish trade, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to introduce a new automated information system, which will monitor…
According to official data, as of September 19, grain crops had been threshed from 10526.3 thousand ha, which was 68.5% of the plan. 15719.3 KMT was harvested with the average yield of 1.49 MT/ha. On the same date of 2015, 9546.4 KMT of grain had been harvested from 8279.5 thousand ha with the average yield…
Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats named industrial cooperation as a promising line in the interaction between Belarus and Tajikistan as he spoke at the conference held on September 22, to mark the 20th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Tajikistan and Belarus. Leonid Zayats took note of the project to organize the assembling…