The document specifying how much food Belarus and Russia intend to trade in with each other in 2017 has been preapproved, Alexei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, reported on April 27. According to him, a joint session of the boards of the Belarusian…
Persha Pryvatna Brovarnia, a large brewery in Ukraine, has received a license form Heineken Concern to produce Czech beer Krusovice and will start its production in early June. “This year we received a license from Heineken Concern to produce Krusovice and in a month will start producing this famous Czech beer,” the co-owner of Persha…
According to forecasts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in the following season (June-July) Tajikistan will import 1 million tons of wheat, which is below the annual average level for the country. In February-March the weather conditions in the agricultural regions of Tajikistan were favorable for development of winter crops. Precipitation was higher…
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…