The interest in oilseeds growing has strengthened considerably over the last decade. As a result, plantings for MY 2016/2017 expanded to 8.9 million ha against 6.3 million ha in MY 2007/2008. As sunseed is the most remunerable oilseed, sunflower accounts for 65-70% of planted acreage, and its share will reach 71% in the current marketing…
The season of 2016/2017 was marked by another rich total harvest of wheat in many of major wheat exporting countries (the harvest even hit a record high in some of them). The exception is the EU, which harvested 16 MMT less wheat (144 MMT) than last year’s bumper crop, according to the USDA. The USDA…
According to the December balance sheets by NGO “Economic discussion club”, coordinated by the Interdepartmental working group under the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine, in September-November the export volumes of sunflower oil from Ukraine totaled 1.33 million tons. The general export volumes of sunflower oil in the current season are forecast at 5.38 million…
Kazakhstan exported 9 KMT of sunseed in October. Although this year’s October deliveries are 6% lower than in the same month in MY 2015/2016, the sunseed market became generally larger for the two months. Thus, 13.7 KMT of sunseed was exported in September-October 2016/2017 against 10.5 KMT a year ago. As expected, the trade cooperation…
Since the beginning of 2016 and as of December 20, Kazakhstan supplied 7.9 million tons of grains to foreign markets, up by 12% YoY, the First Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairat Aituganov declared. According to him, the forecasts for grain exports in the current MY total 8.5-9 million tons. The general…
As of December 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 16.637 million tons (down by 2.2 million tons YoY), the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 3.94 million tons of grains. Wheat formed the major…
According to the data of the customs statistics, in July-November Ukraine supplied 18.8 million tons of grains to foreign markets, up by 6.8% YoY. In particular, the export volumes of wheat reached 10.4 million tons (up by 14%), barley – 4 million tons (up by 17.5%), corn – 4.3 million tons (down by 8.4%), oats…