In January Ukrainian milk production amounted to 69.7 thousand tons, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reports. Milk production with fat content no more than 1% in primary packs with a net volume of more than 2 liters amounted to 30.4 thousand tons, down by 3.6% YoY. The production of milk with a fat content…
Kazakhstan supplied 175.8 KMT of barley to foreign markets in December 2017. This was the largest volume since MY 2014-2015 and 13.7% more than in December 2016. Total barley exports from Kazakhstan in September-December 2017-2018 reached 553.7 KMT, up from 355.6 KMT. In the first four months of MY 2017-2018 the top three importers of…
This year Belarus should make a breakthrough in food supplies to China’s market, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Kirill Rudy declared. “We have not made a false start so far. However, we are close to “getting off” in terms of food supplies to the Chinese market. The deals have been sealed. It…
In 2017 Belarusian agricultural enterprises of all kinds (state-run agricultural enterprises, private farming enterprises, and personal subsidiary economies) produced 7,321,900 tons of milk, up 2.5-fold YoY, the National Statistics Committee reported. As of January 1 the cattle population in the agricultural enterprises of all kinds made up 4.4 million, up by 1.5%, including 1.5 million…
Ostrich breeding is developing in Armenia, with a farm in the country’s Armavir province currently producing and selling basturma, sujuk and other products of ostrich meat. Minister of agriculture Ignati Arakelyan visited the province where non-traditional agriculture was gathering pace. The ostrich farm, in particular, was established in 2008 while the birds were imported from…
Uzbekistan will expand number of grape wine producers, variety wine materials and cognac alcohol in 2019, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ordered in his “On measures for substantial modernization of winemaking industry and realization of alcohol production” decree. According to the document, requirement of determining an expiration date for the wine production will be removed beginning…
The export of meat from Ukraine to Azerbaijan rose 2.7-fold YoY and amounted to $37.8 million in 2017, Nikolai Pugachev, director of the national scientific center “Institute of Agrarian Economics” and academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, said. During the period, Azerbaijan became one of the TOP-5 importers of this product from Ukraine.…