Last year, the trade turnover in agriculture sphere between Azerbaijan and China totaled only $10 million, Azerbaijani Minister of Agriculture Heydar Asadov reported. He said that the relations between the two countries in the agrarian sphere were currently growing, but some problems still remained. “The main problem is to increase export and export potential of…
The Estonian Food and Veterinary Board (VTA) has diagnosed African swine fever (ASF) in pigs on a farm with 6,800 pigs belonging to Linnamae Peekon OU in Laane-Nigula Municipality, Western Estonia. The VTA received a call on September 18 stating that increased mortality had been detected on the farm. The last time the VTA had…
In the current week the Ukrainian export market of soybean oil demonstrated some increasing of selling prices, due to rather high demand for the product. As of September 13 selling prices for hydrated soybean oil usually varied within the range of $770-775/ton FCA, crude soybean oil – $730-750/ton FCA, up nearly by $10-20/ton compared with…
Minister Janis Duklavs met with NGOs at Agriculture Ministry’s Fishing Advisory Council meeting and discussed with them European Commission’s proposal for fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea in 2018. EC’s proposal for fishing opportunities would affect Latvia the most negatively in relation to eastern cod (project suggests a 28% reduction) and herring (7%). There is…
Ukraine had as of September 12 sown 535,000 hectares with winter grain crops for the 2018 harvest, which is 7% of the plan, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has said on the website. In particular, winter wheat and triticale crops were sown on 503,000 ha (8% of the plan), rye crops on 20,000 ha…
First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv has attended the official opening of the Ukrainian-Austrian Beehive honey factory in the village of Cherniavka in Cherkasy region. “A new honey production factory Beehive.ukraine opens here. This is a joint Ukrainian-Austrian project with an investment of about EUR 10 million. A…
That the price of butter has reached record highs in recent months and grocery stores have faced butter shortages is the result of a major increase in demand for milk fat in a situation where supply has always been unable to keep up with demand, according to the Ministry of Rural Affairs. Industrial and household…