The government of Kenya has stated it intends to purchase 450 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn, according to a letter of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry. “The government of Kenya decided to purchase 450,000 tons of yellow corn in Ukraine in March-May,” reads a report posted…
Farmers of seven southern Ukrainian regions have started spring grain sowing, seeding 31,000 hectares, the agriculture ministry said on March 13. Farmers have sown 18,000 hectares of spring barley, 11,000 hectares of peas and 2,000 hectares of oats, the ministry said in a statement. Farmers plan to sow a total of 7.2 million hectares of…
On March 4-10, Ukraine exported 520.9 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 611.1 thousand tons in the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 66.6 thousand tons, corn – 439 thousand tons, and barley – 15.3 thousand tons. Company TIS (107.9 thousand tons) and grain terminal Borivage (68 thousand tons) became the leaders…
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has acquired 9.99% shares in Astarta agroindustrial holding or 2.498 million shares from Aluxes Holding Ltd. belonging to one of the founders of Astarta Valeriy Korotkov. According to a report of the holding on the website of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), the company received the information on March 9. The…
The head of the state Shavkat Mirziyoyev inspected the project of building a poultry complex, organized by Jondor chinor chorva LLC in Jondor district. The intensive technologies of poultry farming are introduced in the Bukhara region, as a result of which the production volumes of eggs and poultry meat are increasing. Today, the number of…
The inaugural shipment of Kazakh wheat for the Vietnamese market arrived at the seaport of Ho Chi Minh City on March 4. This pilot delivery was carried out by KTZ Express, a subsidiary of the national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), and China-Kazakhstan International Logistics Company Lianyungang LLC, the official website of the Prime…
Kazakh production of refined and unrefined vegoils shrank to 24.6 KMT in January against 32.2 KMT a month earlier, Kazakhstan’s Statistics Agency reported. Compared to January 2016, vegoil production gained 5.6%. A total 325.3 KMT of vegoil was produced in 2016. (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)