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…
Bykhov Vegetable Canning Factory sent the first batch of canned products to Tajikistan, the factory’s turnaround manager Alexander Morozov reported. “The arrangement to deliver our products to Tajikistan was reached during the Belarus National Expo in Dushanbe. We responded promptly to the requests of our partners and sent a consignment of canned green peas, corn…
By 2019 Azerbaijan plans to have eliminated dependence on imported butter almost completely, Samir Eyyubov, Chairman at Azerbaijan Milk and Dairy Producers and Export Association, declared. “Azerbaijan is heavily dependent on the import of butter. The state intends to resolve this issue. To this end, until the middle of 2019, two new enterprises will be…
Belarusian milk and juices sell well in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, Yilin Zhang, head of the international economic ties department at Wuhan-Hankou Logistics Company, declared. The executive said that the company started buying milk and juices from Belarus in 2016 and increased import in 2017. The Belarusian dairy company Savushkin Product is…
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has adopted at the first reading a bill introducing amendments to some laws of Ukraine regarding the ban on the use of palm oil in food production. A total of 233 MPs voted for the approval of the respective draft law, No. 3871, at the first reading. “The purpose of…
The agricultural output in Belarus’ enterprises of all categories in current prices reached Br3.4 billion in January-April, up by 1.5% YoY in comparable prices, the National Statistics Committee reported. The agricultural enterprises manufactured Br3.3 billion worth of products, up by 2%. The enterprises of all categories produced 607,400 tons of livestock and poultry (live weight),…
The average price of beer at restaurants in Tallinn’s Town Hall Square (Raekoja Plats), the heart of the tourist district of Tallinn’s Old Town, has seen a rise of around EUR 0.65 on a half liter over the past year. This time last year noted Old Town eateries such as Vana Toomas and Maikrahv were…