The high price on butter in Latvia will not remain so high for long, said Farmers Saeima Vice-Chairperson Maira Dzelzkaleja-Burmistre. “We will not have to deal with such a high price for long,” she said. She adds that the price should stabilize in the next couple of months. It is likely, however, that it will…
A zero rate of customs duties has been introduced on butter, soybean and sunflower oil seed (potatoes, wheat, meslin, rye, barley, oats, corn, grain sorghum, buckwheat, millet, soybean, flax, sunflower, etc.), rye flour, groats and flour from durum wheat, cane sugar, cacao beans, the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals, some products for animal feeding. Starting…
As of August 20, a total of 1,889.500 hectares, or 87%, of areas under crops have been harvested in Belarus so far. The harvest campaign has been completed in Brest region (the yield is 36.7 hundredweights per hectare), the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry reported. As of August 20, Belarus’ grain harvest exceeded 6.779 million…
Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) is conducting a pretrial investigation into a criminal case regarding abuse of office by officials of Ukrspyrt causing large loss to the state. The press service of the PGO said that the investigators had established that officials of Ukrspyrt abused office when holding tenders to procure natural gas for the…
A total of 1,742.600 hectares, or 80.2%, of areas under crops have been harvested in Belarus so far, the Agriculture and Food Ministry reported. As of August 18, Belarus’ grain harvest exceeded 6.274 million tons. Brest region harvested more than 1,205.8 million tons, Minsk region – 1,546.000 tons. Gomel region and Grodno region cropped 896,800…
Kazakhstan exported 314.2 KMT of wheat in June, down by 11.3% MoM, but up by 14.6% YoY. Overall, this season’s wheat exports from Kazakhstan are slightly up (+3.8% YoY). The country shipped 3373 KMT of wheat to foreign markets from September 2016 till June 2017 against 3250 KMT at the same time in MY 2015-2016.…
Ukraine since the beginning of the 2017-2018 marketing year (MY, July-June) and as of August 16 has exported 4.265 million tons of grain. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the country exported about 1.82 million tons of wheat, 1.44 million tons of barley, and 995,000 tons of corn. In addition, 39,200 tons…