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…
The European Union, which ranked second in Ukraine’s wheat export structure in the 2015/2016 marketing year, imported 450 thousand tons of the Ukrainian wheat in 2016, down 3-fold YoY. According to official figures, Ukraine’s wheat exports came to 1,382.7 thousand tons in November 2016, comparable to the amount recorded for the same period last year…
Linseed exports from Ukraine totaled 4.8 KMT in November, up by 14% MoM (4.2 KMT) and by 7% YoY (4.5 KMT). Despite November’s upward trend in exports, their three-month total amounted to just a third of the volume exported in the same period last year: 13.3 KMT against 40 KMT, respectively. A peculiarity of the…
The gross grain harvest in Kazakhstan this year was 23.7 million tons, up almost by 4 million tons YoY. Kazakh farmers have also harvested 3.6 million tons of vegetables and 2.2 million tons of melons, exceeding last year’s produce yield by 511,000 tons. First Vice Minister of Agriculture Kairat Aituganov reported on the results and…
The Food Contract Corporation procurement prices for sunseed, rapeseed and linseed were adjusted upwards (on average by 6%). Procurement prices for soybeans were left unchanged. In October the Food Contract Corporation for the first time announced procurement of sunseed, linseed, rapeseed and soybeans. The measures taken by the corporation contributed to the formation of optimal…
In November Ukraine exported record volumes of sunflower oil at 535.6 thousand tons, up by 23% MoM and by 44% YoY. During the first 3 months of the season-2016/2017 (September-November) the country exported 1.24 million tons of sunflower oil, up by 31% YoY. India took the first position in the list of countries-importers with a…