Early in September intensive rains were observed all over the Ukrainian territory. In the Kherson region abundant rains were seen with lightning in some places. Total daily precipitation quantity in the region amounted to 49 mm. Such weather conditions were favorable for accumulation of soil moisture, so moisture stocks in the plow-soil layer grew by…
According to State statistics data, stocks of sunseed in Ukraine as of September 1, were 707.6 KMT, down by 2.2% YoY (723.4 KMT). Agro companies had 504.8 KMT and storing plants with crushing capacities – 202.8 KMT. Crushing plants increased sunseed stocks by 5.7% (202.8 KMT against 191.9 KMT as of September 1, 2015). Soybean…
On September 19-25, Ukraine exported 648.4 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 596.1 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 579.5 thousand tons, barley – 64.9 thousand tons, and corn – 4 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
According to the draft State Budget of Ukraine for 2017, the Government will provide some funds to support the buckwheat and rye markets to stimulate production rates of the reporting grains in Ukraine, the Director of the food products department at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Moroz declared. According to…
The World Bank forecasts that Ukraine’s GDP will be 1% by the end of 2016 and 2% by the end of 2017, World Bank Economist for Ukraine Anastasia Golovach has stated. “We are leaving our GDP growth forecasts for 2016 and 2017 unchanged at 1% and 2% respectively”, Golovach said. According to her, the World…
In January-August Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 1.212 million tons of flour, down by 5.9% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the production volumes in August totaled 176 thousand tons, up by 18.4% MoM and by 1.1% YoY. In January-August the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine totaled 2.4…
In 2016/2017 MY the share of domestic consumption of flour in Ukraine will decrease to 87% of its general production, against the average index of 91% during five recent years. At the same time, the forecast of Ukrainian flour exports in the current season totals 370 thousand tons, up by 7.5% YoY (344 thousand tons),…