Last week’s weather featured low night temperatures (down to -15 degrees C) early in the week with adequate snow cover (up to 10-23 cm), a sharp brief (2 days) rise in average daily temperatures to +5 C in the south with full snow melting, their sharp drop to 2-5 C below zero on December 11-13,…
According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of December 8, 422.6 thousand ha of corn were threshed, or 100% of the plan (422.8 thousand ha). 2224.7 KMT were harvested with the average yield of 5.26 MT/ha. Average corn yield is 4.4% higher than in 2015. As of December 8, winter wheat had been sown at…
Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products amounted to nearly $12 billion in 10 months of 2016. This is reported by the press service of the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine. “According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, exports of Ukrainian agricultural products in January-October amounted to $11.8 billion, accounting for 40.7% of total…
There could be a price increase on dairy products, coffee, oils and oranges next year. This can be explained with trends on world markets. On Latvia’s local markets, however, there could be a price increase for bread, head of Agricultural Resources and Economics Institute’s department Inguna Gulbe said. At the same time, she said prices…
In January-October the import volumes of wheat to Azerbaijan totaled 1.268 million tons, up by 9% YoY, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan reported. According to the statistics figures, the general cost of imported wheat to the country totaled nearly $234.4 million (down by 9.3%). In the reporting period Azerbaijan imported 110.4…
Due to expansion of the planted areas of flaxseed in Kazakhstan and the growth of its production volumes, the country managed to increase its processing volumes. In 2015/2016 MY Kazakhstan produced 16.9 thousand tons of flaxseed oil, which became a historical maximum record, and exceeded the previous season figures 5 times. According to the Customs…
Belarus’ proceeds from fresh/chilled beef export totaled $258.863 million in January-October, down by 10.9% YoY, Belstat said in a report. Belarus exported 87,510 tons of fresh and chilled beef in January-October, up by 2% YoY. Almost all beef was exported to Russia – 87,422 tons (up by 2.3%) worth $258.681 million (down by 10.7%). Cheese…