Italian company COF SpA and Minsk greenhouse vegetable company will set up a joint enterprise to produce lettuce in Belarus, according to the website of the National Agency of Investment and Privatization. During the ceremony to sign the relevant agreement, Francesco Barbieri, the head of COF SpA, said that he believed that this cooperation was…
Kazakhstan plans to increase the supplies of agro-industrial products to foreign markets by $600 million, the First Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kairat Aituganov declared. In February the President of Kazakhstan approved a new five-year state program for development of the agro-industrial complex focusing on production of competitive top requested products. Its…
Since the beginning of a new season-2017-2018, and as of July 27, Ukraine supplied 2.003 million tons of grain crops to foreign markets, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported. In particular, the exports of wheat totaled 631 thousand tons, barley – 601 thousand tons, corn – 770 thousand tons, and other grains –…
Belarusian farmers intend to harvest about 1 million tons of potatoes in 2017, Tatiana Karbanovich, Deputy Head of the Central Office for Crop Farming, Head of the Fruit and Vegetables Department at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, reported. According to the source, Belarusian agricultural companies and individual farmers are expected to gather in about…
In January-June Tajikistan imported 26.6 thousand tons of flour valued at $265/ton, down by 23.3 thousand tons or by 46.7% YoY, the Head of the Antimonopoly service at the government of Tajikistan, Saadi Kodirzoda reported. In the first half year of 2017 domestic companies produced 313.2 thousand tons of flour, up by 88.9 thousand tons,…
Farmers Saeima believes Latvia’s beef industry is not sufficiently developed, and existing farms have not been sufficiently stabilized – many farms have major debt. Because of that any kind of support for the industry is welcome. Considering the recently voiced information about the possible reduction of voluntary support for livestock in 2017, the Farmers Saeima…
The pace of sunseed crushing slowed down to some extent in June against the previous month. Consequently, sunoil production by large and medium-sized crushers amounted to 451.4 KMT in June 2016-2017 against 491.2 KMT a month earlier. Monthly output still remains at a record level. In total, Ukraine’s large and medium-sized crushers produced as much…