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.…
In May Ukraine exported 454 tons of pine strawberries, up 1.4-fold YoY, a record figure for the years of the country’s independence. According to the analysts, Belarus remains the main importer of Ukrainian pine strawberries. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
An inspection of quarantine products of high phytosanitary risk has revealed violations, according to Kazakh and the Eurasian Economic Union legislation, the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture said on June 27. In particular, as much as 81.5 tons of potatoes imported from Azerbaijan were revealed to be partially infectious, and thus were returned back. Overall, 99.8…
In May Ukrainian flour production amounted to 139.26 KMT that is somewhat more than at the same time last year (up by 3.7%). Nevertheless, Ukraine’s flour output for the five months of the current year decreased by 1.5% YoY, to 762.97 KMT. Still, the drop in production of wheat and wheat-rye flour was not so…