In January-June agricultural products formed 40.8% in money terms in the general volume of commodity exports from Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. According to the announcement, the supplies of plant growing commodities to foreign markets provided every fifth export US dollar coming to Ukraine, which in absolute terms totaled…
Last week the weather was warm with lack of precipitations. Heavy rains were observed only in Kharkov, Zhitomir, Kiev and Dniepropetrovsk regions with lightning. Average daily temperature fluctuated within 18.2-29.4 C and was 1-7 C higher than the norm. Maximum air temperature in the warmest days increased in the South to + 38 C and…
Qualitative characteristics of Ukrainian grains supplied to foreign markets completely meet the international standards, the Head of the State Service on Food Safety and Consumers Protection Volodymyr Lapa said. According to him, the export trading continues developing, and Ukrainian grain products are in demand on the global market. Therefore, Ukrainian grains have the required qualitative…
Long-term hot and dry weather in Kherson region led to excessive accumulation of effective warmth. Evaporation from the water surface was 7-7.4 mm per day (norm 5.7 mm). As a result fast development of late spring crops was observed, which can lead to premature completion of vegetation, which can happen 1-2 weeks earlier. On the…
On August 22-28, Ukraine exported 552.7 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 647.7 thousand tons in the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 391.1 thousand tons, corn – 10.7 thousand tons, and barley – 150.9 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
As of August 26, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.2 million tons of grains and pulses throughout the areas of 9.87 million ha, or 68% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.91 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes…
In January-July Ukrainian flour-milling enterprises produced 1.036 million tons of flour, down by 7% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. At the same time, the production volumes in July totaled 149 thousand tons, up by 12.5% MoM and down by 7.2% YoY. In January-July the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine…