In January-March the production volumes of flour in Ukraine totaled 475 thousand tons, an increase of 0.6% compared with the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. Also, in the reporting period Ukraine significantly increased the production of crude sunflower oil, which reached 1.448 million tons, up by 35.7% YoY. The…
PJSC Bakhmutsky Agrarian Union (Donetsk region), a pork producing enterprise, in 2016 increased pork sales by 4.9% YoY, to 15,280 tons (live weight). According to a company report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market, last year its net loss amounted to UAH 55.9 million against a…
Baltic beverages producer Cido Group continues developing its export potential. The company has commenced exports of juices to Libya this year. This is the first African country that values juices produced in Latvia. Until now, Latvian juices have been exported to markets like China and United Arab Emirates, as reported by the company. All juices…
In 2017 the share of rapeseed planted areas (winter and spring) in the general structure of crop planted areas in Belarus will rise to 7.5% against 3.9% last year. Thus the planted areas of winter rapeseed for the harvest-2017 totaled 352.7 thousand ha, and the planned areas for spring rapeseed total 86.2 thousand ha, which…
In March APK-Inform analysts adjusted the forecast supply and demand balances of grains and pulses in Ukraine, and once again lowered the article of domestic consumption of grains in the current season to the level of 25.3 million tons, a decrease of 1% compared with the previous forecast in February, and down by 2% compared…
Ukrainian agrarians started planting corn for grain. As of April 10, Ukraine planted the grain throughout the areas of 60 thousand ha, or 1% of the plan, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. The general planted areas under early grains and pulses in the country reached 2.094 million ha, or 87%…
Ukraine exported roughly 33.1 MMT of grains in the 2016/2017 season as of March 28, up by 9% YoY (30.3 MMT). The exports included 14.5 MMT of wheat (12.8 MMT in MY 2015/2016), 13.6 MMT of corn (13.3 MMT) and about 4.78 MMT of barley (4 MMT). In addition, 271.6 KMT of flour was shipped…