As of August 8, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the areas of 17.7 million ha (15.6 million ha on the same date in 2015), or 37.4% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 62.5 million tons of grains, with the average yield of 3.54…
VIM Airlines is set to add a maiden A330-200 to its fleet. Formerly in service with EVA Air it was ferried from Lourdes/Tarbes to Dublin Int’l earlier this month for painting and maintenance ahead of its delivery to Russia. The aircraft is owned and managed by SMBC Aviation Capital. VIM Airlines operational fleet currently entails…
Russia’s Imperial Porcelain Factory (IPF) will open an outlet in Bahrain this October to reach the Middle East market, Chief Executive Officer of the company Tatiana Tylevich said. “We will sign a contract in September and our products will appear there in October. It will be an outlet in a department store in Manama”, Tylevich…
Russian Helicopters Group is planning to sign a contract with India before the yearend to overhaul three Mil Mi-26 (NATO reporting name: Halo) heavy military transport rotorcraft, Group Deputy CEO for After-Sale Maintenance Igor Chechikov said. “India is a key strategic partner for Russian Helicopters Group and a major operator of Russian-made rotorcraft”, he added.…
Federal State Statistic Service has changed its estimate of oilseeds acreage for the 2016/2017 crop. Correction was made for all oil crops to a greater or lesser degree. In this regard, production estimates were also revised. Some analysts give bold projections and work with close to record productivity, while others are more modest in their…
According to official data, as of August 8, farmers have threshed 17.663 million ha (37.4%) of grains and legumes against 15.6 million ha as of August 8, 2015. 62.526 MMT was harvested with average yield 3.54 MT/ha (48.414 MMT in 2015 with 3.1 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 11.745 million ha (42.4%) against 11.326 million…
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%…