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)
In the current season Ukraine demonstrated record rates of imports of Belarusian rye flour. In July-January of 2016/2017 MY the import volumes of Belarusian rye flour to Ukraine totaled 23.6 thousand tons against 252 tons only in the same period last season. At the same time, in the current season Ukraine significantly decreased the domestic…
Ukraine since the beginning of the 2016/2017 marketing year (July-June) and as of March 7, exported 29.91 million tons of grain. According to the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, the country exported about 13.69 million tons of wheat, 4.67 million tons of barley and 11.37 million tons of corn. In addition, 265,100 tons of…
Linseed exports from Kazakhstan totaled 29 KMT in January, i.e. almost half as much as in December (57.5 KMT) and up almost by 86% YoY. Altogether, linseed supplies to foreign markets in the five months of 2016/2017 reached a record 175.3 KMT that consolidated Kazakhstan’s position as one of the world’s top exporters of this…
Warmer-than-usual weather in Ukraine in late February and early March triggered the resumption of plant growth in winter crops 15-18 days ahead of usual time. Almost all the water that long stayed in field depressions is gone now. Plants were waterlogged for 8 to 39 days, which might increase the crop loss area. It is…
According to the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in January the production volumes of vegetable oils totaled 24.6 thousand tons, up by 6% YoY. At the same time, during the first five months of 2016/2017 MY (September-January) the reporting growth dynamics reached 13% YoY, to 155.4 thousand…