On March 11-12, air temperatures became slightly lower than earlier in the month. Cloudy weather dominated the country with almost daily insignificant precipitation occurring all over its territory except for the East. The average daily air temperature was within a range of +2.2 to +7.5 degrees C, i.e. 2.9-6.4 degrees above normal. On the warmest…
An all-time high of 4.9 KMT of sunoil was supplied from Kazakhstan to foreign markets in January. Looking into the export dynamics of the first five months of each season, periods of high and minimum exports alternated from 2008 till 2014. By 2013/2014, exports had reached 13.6 KMT – the highest point for the time.…
Belarus has imposed temporary restrictions on the import deliveries of live pigs, pork and derived products from Kherson region due to the outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF). This has been said in a relevant order of March 17, published on the website of the Department of Veterinary and Food Control at the Ministry of…
As of March 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 11.735 million tons, the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported on March 21. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 2.483 million tons of grains. Wheat formed the major share of the…
According to preliminary information, Ukraine exported 840 KMT of wheat in February that is basically comparable with its exports in the same month last year (855 KMT). In total, the country supplied 13.56 MMT of wheat to foreign markets in the first eight months of the current season, or 14.5% more than at the same…
This year the spring weather processes influencing the plant development started almost a month ahead of the multi-year average. According to meteorologists, the meteorological and actual resumption of winter crops growth happened on March 1-5 against the multi-year average of April 1-4. Last year their growth started on April 1. In general, winter crops have…
In January Azerbaijan increased wheat import 3.4-fold YoY, to 58.7 million tons, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan reported. According to the statistics data, the general cost of imported wheat to the country totaled $10.857 million (up 3.2 times). Also, in the reporting period Azerbaijan imported 1.426 thousand tons of vegetable oils…