Precipitation deficit at the background of excessive air temperatures in several Black Sea countries, particularly in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, raise market operators` concerns as to the volume of Black Sea corn supply in 2016/2017. But major attention is focused on Bulgaria and Romania, due to the fact that precipitation quantity has been lower in…
As of August 9, agricultural organizations of Belarus harvested grains and pulses throughout 1.484 million ha, or 67.2% of the planned areas, down by 48.5 thousand ha YoY. The average yield totaled 3.47 t/ha, the harvested volumes – 5.146 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus declared. Agrarians have…
Russian sellers set prices of iPhones themselves, Apple said in response to coordination charges brought against the U.S. company by the Federal Antimonopoly Service. “Resellers form their own prices for Apple’s products, which they sell in Russia as well as worldwide”, an official at Apple said. The antitrust watchdog saw signs of coordination of prices…
Support of small and medium farms, investments in agrarian sector of Ukraine are the essential possibilities for the production of high quality products, said Taras Kutovyi, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. “Ukrainian small and medium farmers have all possibilities to become attractive players for foreign partners. Due to this, the support…
In January-July overall freight throughput of terminal operators at the Port of Kherson totaled 2.06 million tons, down by 3.5% YoY, the Center for Transport Strategies (CTS) said, citing Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). In the reporting period the port operators handled 81,000 tons of liquid bulk cargo (up 3.1 times YoY) and 1,58 million…
Komsomolets plant (Zabaykal region) is going to receive 400 million RUB for development from Far East development fund and from Baykal region`s fund. The plant grows rapeseed and fodder crops. Despite the common tendency to decrease sowing area of rapeseed, the plant is going to sow ten times more rapeseed and grain crops. Apart from…
Russian airlines carried 38.1 million passengers in the first half of 2016, down by 7.6% YoY. International traffic was down by 26.8%, to 13.4 million passengers YoY. Domestic traffic was up by 7.7%, to 24.7 million, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) reported. In June, international traffic dropped by 30.5%, to 3.1 million, while domestic…