Wheat exports from Kazakhstan continued growing in November 2016. Kazakh wheat exports totaled 415.3 KMT in the third month of the season, up by 25% YoY. In Q1 2016/2017 (September-November) Kazakhstan exported 33.5% more wheat than at the same time last season: 1223.2 KMT and 915.9 KMT respectively. The most active exports of Kazakh wheat…
Belarus may start selling beef to China in Q1 2017, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats reported. The official noted that four Belarusian meat-processing companies had been reviewed and certified by Chinese experts. Another nine are willing to go through the same procedure. The Chinese side spoke in glowing terms about industrial standards of…
Belarus will sell more food to Russia in 2017 than in 2016, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats reported. The minister noted that the boards of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry and the Russian Agriculture Ministry decided on the amount of food supplies every year. “We set certain reference targets for Belarusian and…
A record high amount of milk is expected to be produced in Belarus in 2016, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats reported. According to the source, last year’s milk production is expected to go up by 125,000 tons YoY to 6.780 million tons. “It is the first time the republic will produce that much”,…
In 2016 more than 360 batches of dairy, meat and fishery products of Belarusian origin were returned at the Belarusian-Russian administrative border, the press service of the Rosselkhoznadzor reported. The products were returned for the following reasons: the documents with advance production dates of products, re-branding of meat, poor sanitary condition of vehicles and products,…
According to Kazakh statistics committee, stocks of grains and legumes in all the enterprises as of December 1, 2016 were 16.64 MMT against 15.87 MMT on the same date in 2015 (+4.8%). Wheat stocks increased by 1.4%, to 13.37 MMT, which included 11.15 MMT of milling wheat and 898.8 KMT of feed wheat, as well…
In November 2016 Russia exported 183 thousand tons of sunflower oil, which became the record volume for the reporting month during several recent years. Furthermore, the November exports exceeded the previous month level by 33%, and November 2015 – 1.5 times. During the first three months of 2016/2017 MY (September-November), Russia supplied 414 thousand tons…