Every fourth Latvian resident considers reducing the amount of meat in their diet or becoming a vegetarian or vegan, as stated in the latest Maxima survey. What is particularly interesting is that the largest proportion of such residents is found in Riga and Latgale. At the same time, 55% of respondents have no plans to…
The price of butter in Latvia has reached its maximum, said Competition Council chairman Skaidrite Abrame. “Prices in Latvia have definitely reached the peak. Alternatives for imports of cheaper butter are being considered,” Abrama said, adding that butter in Estonia was at least 20-30% cheaper. Abrama also notes that prices for butter have grown considerably…
Azerbaijan, taking credit for being one of the world’s oldest wine growing countries, intends to expand the export of wine to China, the world’s second-largest economy. The issue was the key topic of talks between local winemakers and the trade representative of Azerbaijan in China, Teymur Nadiroglu. Nadiroglu informed entrepreneurs about the Chinese wine market,…
In Ukraine, early cereals and pulses were harvested from 9639 thousand ha (100%) as of August 21. Farmers gathered 37224 KMT with an average yield of 3.86 MT/ha against 37948 KMT with an average yield of 3.94 MT/ha as of August 22, 2016. These included 26562 KMT of wheat harvested from 6359 thousand ha (100%)…
In January-July the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine totaled 3.18 million tons, an increase of 36% compared with the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, in July Ukraine produced 314 thousand tons of sunflower oil, down by 30.4% MoM, but up by 46.4% YoY. Also,…
Turkmenistan will plant winter wheat for the harvest-2018 throughout the areas of 760 thousand ha. Turkmen agrarians started the planting campaign of winter wheat on August 23. The forecast of winter wheat production in 2018 totals 1.6 million tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
This year the grain yield in Belarus is above last year’s average, Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun said. “This year the grain yield in the country is above last year’s figures. The average yield in 2017 is 35.8 hundredweights per hectare, with Grodno region posting the crop capacity of 43.5 hundredweights per…