Ukraine: sunflower planted area underestimated

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…

Russia: grain export volumes up in July 2016

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%…

Ukraine: gas transit up in August 2016

The scheduled repair of Nord Stream for the period from August 9 through August 17 has resulted in a rise in Russian gas transit across the Ukrainian gas transport system to Europe by 20%, spokesman of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “Due to repair of Nord Stream gas pumping by Ukraine to…