Turkmenistan’s wheat collection centers have reported receiving one million tons of new crop wheat. It is expected that this year’s government order for procurement of 1,600 million tons of grain will be fulfilled. This year’s wheat sowing area amounts to 760 thousand hectares in Turkmenistan. About 1,500 grain combines are used in the harvesting campaign.…
In May Ukraine exported 454 tons of pine strawberries, up 1.4-fold YoY, a record figure for the years of the country’s independence. According to the analysts, Belarus remains the main importer of Ukrainian pine strawberries. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
An inspection of quarantine products of high phytosanitary risk has revealed violations, according to Kazakh and the Eurasian Economic Union legislation, the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture said on June 27. In particular, as much as 81.5 tons of potatoes imported from Azerbaijan were revealed to be partially infectious, and thus were returned back. Overall, 99.8…
In May Ukrainian flour production amounted to 139.26 KMT that is somewhat more than at the same time last year (up by 3.7%). Nevertheless, Ukraine’s flour output for the five months of the current year decreased by 1.5% YoY, to 762.97 KMT. Still, the drop in production of wheat and wheat-rye flour was not so…
In January-May Tajikistan imported 23.4 thousand tons of flour, down almost 2-fold YoY, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan declared. In January-May 2016 Tajikistan imported 42.6 thousand tons of flour. According to the announcement, to date the price of one 50-kg bag of 1-grade flour of Kazakh origin in Dushanbe totals 175-180…
Ukraine’s State Service for Food Safety and Consumers Protection has reported that nine more Ukrainian enterprises have been permitted to supply dairy products to China. “Earlier 18 companies had the right to export dairy products to the Chinese market. Our Chinese colleagues expanded this list by nine companies, to 27 Ukrainian enterprises,” State Service for…
In January-April Azerbaijan decreased wheat imports by 47.6% YoY, to 261.1 thousand tons, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan declared. According to the statistics figures, the general cost of imported wheat to the country totaled $48.461 million (down by 48.1%). In the reporting period Azerbaijan imported 32.19 thousand tons of vegetable oils…