The absence of productive rain over a long time caused faster ripening of early cereals in the southern and central regions, along with premature drying of those planted after non-fallow predecessors. As a result, kernels failed to get filled: they are shriveled with a low 1000-kernel weight (23-35 g). As of today, winter wheat in…
According to the official statistics figures, in May Kazakhstan shipped 13.3 thousand tons of wheat to Turkey, which exceeded the volumes shipped in April by 93%. At the same time, the export volumes reduced by 14% YoY. In July-May 2016-2017 MY Kazakhstan supplied 45.6 thousand tons of wheat to the country, down by 39% YoY…
Ukraine as of June 29 has threshed 313,900 tons of grain and leguminous crops from 95,000 hectares. According to the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, average yield is 33 hundredweights per ha. Some 28,000 tons of winter wheat were threshed on 10,200 ha with the yield of 27.5 hundredweights per ha.…
A fast food restaurant under the KFC brand of a franchise partner of the owner Yum! Brands Inc. (Louisville, the United States) – Global Restaurant Group – Ukraine LLC (GRG) – has been opened in the Magellan shopping center in Kyiv. The press service of the company reported that the new KFC fast food restaurant…
According to the current information of the State Statistics Service, Ukraine’s reserves of grains and pulses totaled 8.84 MMT as of June 1, up by 10.8% YoY (7.98 MMT). Wheat stocks decreased by 22.3%, to 3 MMT against 3.87 MMT reported as of June 1, 2016. Corn stocks are up by 49.5% YoY, amounting to…
Ukraine produced 431,000 tons of bread and bakery products in January-May, down by 7.6% YoY, according to Ukraine’s State Statistics Service. In May Ukraine produced 90,000 tons of bread, up by 5.3% MoM, but down by 3% YoY. Flour production in the five months totaled 763,000 tons, down by 1.5% YoY. Flour production in May…
Turkmenistan’s wheat collection centers have reported receiving one million tons of new crop wheat. It is expected that this year’s government order for procurement of 1,600 million tons of grain will be fulfilled. This year’s wheat sowing area amounts to 760 thousand hectares in Turkmenistan. About 1,500 grain combines are used in the harvesting campaign.…