A three-day meeting of the Regional Working Group including representatives from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan kicked off in the Tajik northern city of Khujand on May 16. According to the European Delegation to Tajikistan, the regional meeting has the goal to develop the Explanatory Brochure in accordance with the UNECE Standard DDP-15 concerning marketing and…
Ukraine has imposed sanctions against state-owned Crimea-based agricultural companies and vineyards in line with decree No. 133 dated May 15 signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. According to a supplement to the decree, state companies that have re-registered under Russian law are subject to sanctions, including: Sevastopol Winery, the Crimean Agricultural Institute and its research…
During nine months of 2016-2017 MY, Ukraine officially produced nearly 1.527 million tons of wheat flour, against 1.526 million tons in the same period last season, the Adviser to the Chairman at Agrarian Fund PJSC Sergei Sakirkin declared. According to him, Ukraine continues decreasing number of enterprises, which provide balances about grain processing volumes in…
China is going to open its market to Belarusian beef, Alexei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, declared. Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats met with Zhi Shuping, Minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic…
Ukraine’s State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights Protection in the past several days received confirmation of an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak recorded in Poltava and Cherkasy regions. According to a posting on the website of the authority, pigs died at public joint-stock company Kaplyntsivske (Poltava region) and private enterprise Shulz (Chekasy region)…
China is a promising market for Belarusian ice cream. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov made the statement as he was made familiar with the progress of SOOO Morozproduct’s retooling campaign in Pukhovichi district, Minsk region on May 12. According to the Belarusian head of government, Morozproduct is a successfully operating enterprise that has been…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has projected that sunflower harvest in Ukraine in the 2017-2018 agricultural year (September-August) would be 13.5 million tons. Sunflower oil production would reach 5.633 million tons and its exports – 5 million tons. Production of sunflower cake could total 5.371 million tons and its exports – 4.4 million tons.…