The cargo traffic by the Northeast Passage can increase manifold to 65 million tons a year by 2020 because Russia’s foreign partners, in particular, China, are interested in the opportunities its use can offer, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council, declared. He said that further development of the transportation capacity of the route going…
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia has made changes to the structure of its central administration unit, abolishing the agricultural and food market regulation, food and processing industry and creating two separate divisions. The Department of Agro-Industrial Market Regulation will be headed by Vladimir Volik and will focus on the strategic planning and management of…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of September 1, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout 3.263 million ha, or 21.3% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 5.1 million tons of grains, up 2 times YoY. The average yield totaled 1.56…
According to the official statistics figures, in July Ukraine produced 148.5 thousand tons of flour, down by 7% YoY. Ukraine dropped production volumes of all types of flour products. In particular, the production of wheat and wheat-rye flour decreased by 4% to 141.2 thousand tons, of flour from other grains – by 41% to 7.2…
In 2015/2016 MY PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine shipped more than 40 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets, up 2 times YoY, the press-service of the company declared. Also, SFGCU PJSC started exporting products with shipload lots. Since the beginning of 2016, the company shipped more than 12 thousand tons of…
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is determined to speed up the process of associating the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU, includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan) with China’s Silk Road project, the EEC press-service said in a statement. The EEC has launched relevant talks with China. The parties conducted the first round of talks on the…
On September 1, Belarus has temporarily banned pork imports from Volyn and Vinnytsia regions of Ukraine due to African swine fever (ASF). The Veterinary and Food Control Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus has stated this on its website. According to the data from the World Organization for…