In the current season of 2016/2017 Ukraine’s grain market has faced a shortage of rolling stock for transporting grain freights. However, while the transport shortage was previously associated with a lack of railcars, the availability of trucks has also become an acute problem now. The logistical difficulties in Ukraine have already caused changes in the…
Ukraine’s seaports handled 4.22 MMT of vegoils in January-November, up by 16.9% YoY (3.61 MMT). The greatest handling volumes were accounted for by the following ports: Mykolaiv (1.78 MMT), Chornomorsk (1.19 MMT), Yuzhny (0.94 MMT), Odessa (0.11 MMT) and Mariupol (0.07 MMT). Ukraine’s ports handled 34.986 MMT of grains in January-November, up by 6.3% YoY…
Kazakh wheat bran exports exceeded 180 KMT in 2015/2016: they totaled 181.6 KMT, or up by 31.6% YoY. In the beginning of the new season 2016/2017, Kazakh exporters continued stepping up wheat bran deliveries to foreign markets. So, Kazakhstan exported as much as 43.4 KMT of wheat bran in the first two months of the…
Low marginality of flour production does not allow Ukrainian companies-processors to realize significant investments in reconstruction of their enterprises, and denies the opportunity to improve qualitative characteristics of the final product, and reduce its production costs, the co-owner of the group of companies Ukr-Agro-Product LLC, Khlebodar and GFS Group Boris Shestopalov declared. According to him,…
In July-November Ukraine significantly increased the exports of peas to Pakistan, which reached 39.9 thousand tons, up by 75% YoY (22.8 thousand tons), and by 8% compared with the whole 2015/2016 MY (36.8 thousand tons). The current trends in peas production in Ukraine allowed increasing the exports, not only to Pakistan, but also on the…
In 2016 the production of grains and pulses in Ukraine will reach 64.2 million tons in standard weight, up by 4 million tons YoY, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. According to the announcement, the average yield of grains and pulses is estimated at 4.48 ton/ha (up by 0.37 ton/ha compared…
Sprouts of winter crops in Ukraine appeared throughout the areas of 6.5 million ha, or 93% of the planted areas, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine informed. According to the announcement, as of the reporting date 83% of the sprouted areas were in good and satisfactory condition (5.4 million ha), and 17%…