Ukrainian 2016/2017 grain exports could be 7 million tons lower than originally expected due to logistical difficulties and some companies have already redirected shipments from Ukraine to other countries, traders said. Ukraine had planned to ship abroad around 41 million tons of grain in the 2016/2017 July-June season versus around 39 million tons a season…
Belarusian food products are in demand on all the markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Minister Vladimir Koltovich reported. “Foreign partners like Belarusian products. Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs know that the Belarusian quality is high, and our products are welcome on all the CIS markets”, the minister stressed.…
China has proposed to establish Ukrainian-Chinese free trade area. Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei said this during an opening ceremony of Ukraine Silk Road International Forum held in Kyiv. “The Chinese side has proposed to create the Russian-Chinese free trade zone. We hope to intensify a research on this issue with the Ukrainian side”,…
Late October and early November featured a temperature upturn in Bulgaria. The temperature increase against the background of sufficient topsoil moisture reserves caused winter crops to resume their active growth. Exceptions are some parts of South Bulgaria where soil moisture shortages hamper development of winter cereals and rape. Plants of winter wheat and barley seeded…
This season wheat quality issues are particularly acute. An increase in feed grain supply from the Black Sea countries is a characteristic feature of the current season. The growth of milling wheat share in Ukraine will be offset by increased feed wheat production in Russia and Kazakhstan. Traditionally, Kazakhstan produces grain of highest quality compared…
Belarusian manufacturers must upgrade their quality management systems to comply with the new standard STB ISO 9001-2015 by September 15, 2018, Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization Viktor Nazarenko reported. Viktor Nazarenko recalled that a new version of the national standard for quality management system STB ISO 9001-2015, identical to the international standard, was…
The Belarusian industrial gas producer BMZ-GKS, which was founded by Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) among other parties, started selling argon to Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova in 2016, Alexander Olesik, Press Secretary of the BMZ, reported. The first few batches of argon were delivered to Poland in late 2015. Argon has many applications in the…