Belarus has sent the first commercial batch of beef to China, Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, declared. “A few days ago we sent the first container with beef using the Silk Road railway route to China. This is the result of hard…
To date, US and Ukrainian corn are the most competitive products on the Chinese and other markets, but the absence of GM content is the major advantage of the latter, declared the Deputy of Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Viktor Sheremeta. According to the official, Ukraine produces corn hybrids, but not GM-corn.…
In January-April Ukrainian sugar confectionery production totaled 22 thousand tons, down by 3.1% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. According to the data, in April 5.5 thousand tons of sugar confectionery products were produced, down by 10.8% MoM and by 2.3% YoY. (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)
Production of vodka of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% in Ukraine in January-April fell by 20.2% YoY, to 3.7 million deciliters, and brandy output dropped by 9.6%, to 591,000 decaliters. Vodka production in April was 1 million decaliters, up by 4.4% MoM and by 50.1% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said.…
Belarus is ready to increase meat and milk supplies to China, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said. “China is the world’s largest food importer. Experts predict the further growth of the Chinese meat and dairy market. Belarus is ready to offer high-quality and eco-friendly products to Chinese consumers,” Andrei Kobyakov said. China has been actively…
In April Ukraine supplied 24.9 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets, which became the minimum monthly value in 2017-2018 MY, as well as down by 9% YoY (27.4 thousand tons). Decreasing of the interest in Ukrainian flour from its key consumer – North Korea, which did not received the supplies in March and April,…
Cereal producer Agricom Group has opened an oat flake facility in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynsky in Chernihiv region to increase production capacity. Construction of the $10.5-million facility took three years and would increase production capacity by 1 million kilograms per month, said the company. Investment for the construction was made up by 40% of the…