Saeima’s Economic, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Policy Committee supported in the third reading amendments to the Handling of Alcoholic Beverages Law, which provided that small breweries would be allowed to produce drinks using berries, fruit and plants that grew in the wild or cultivated in gardens in Latvia. Amendments are intended to define that small…
Avangard plans to recover the second position in the list of the world’s largest egg producers, lost as a result of military aggression in Donbas, Oleg Bakhmatyuk, owner of UkrLandFarming (ULF) and Avangard, announced. “Over the past four years we have invested more than $2.2 billion in agricultural assets in Ukraine. We are working to…
In 2018 the harvest volumes of corn in Ukraine will increase by 19.4% YoY, and total nearly 29.5 million tons, declared the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Maksym Martynyuk. According to him, in 2018-2019 MY the exports volumes will total 22 million tons. Also, Ukraine will increase the production of…
The cost of bread has been reduced in Uzbekistan since September 17. The cost of a loaf of bread decreased from 1,200 soums to 1,050 soums. Earlier, since September 15 the cost of a loaf of bread has almost doubled from 650 to 1,200 soums, which caused discontent among the citizens. Such price fluctuations are…
In parallel with late cereals and legumes harvesting Kiev region has begun sugar beet harvesting. As of September 13 in Kiev region agrarians started late cereals, legumes and technical crops harvesting, Kyiv Regional State Administration reported on its Facebook page. That 36.9 thousand tons of sugar beet have been harvested with the average yield of…
Ukraine boosted exports of poultry meat and offal to 184,600 tons January through July, up by 8.9% YoY. Today Ukraine ranks 7th in terms of exports of broiler meat among the countries that sell this product abroad, the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said. The largest importers are Japan,…
During an extraordinary meeting, members of Ogre County Council supported creation of an egg and egg product plant in Madliena Parish, which had been picked by a Ukrainian investor as a location for the plant. The municipality has received an application from SIA Gallusman board chairman Arnis Veinbergs with information regarding the plans of Ukrainian…