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…
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…