Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 20.061 million tons of grains, up by 0.88 million tons YoY, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, wheat exports totaled 10.6 million tons (up by 1.1 million tons YoY), corn – 5.3 million tons (down by 0.45 million tons), and barley…
Ukraine and the Republic of Ireland have discussed the issue of possible expansion of trade and economic cooperation, in particular, with regard to imports of Irish beef, pork, milk, and dairy products to Ukraine. This has been reported by the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection following a meeting of Chairman…
Azerbaijan has exempted the sale of poultry meat, production and sale of wheat flour and bread from value added tax (VAT) for three years starting from January 1, 2017, according to the amendments to the Tax Code approved at a plenary session of Parliament. The import and sale of wheat is also exempt from VAT…
Milk Alliance Group has reported that a first batch of butter with 82.5% fat content in the amount of 140 tons has been shipped to the Netherlands. “Public joint-stock company Zolotonosha Butter Factory made the butter. Examinations confirmed high quality of our product”, the company said on its Facebook page. In January 2017 the company…
Ukrainian sunmeal exports totaled 349.8 KMT in October against 141.5 KMT in September and 348 KMT in October 2015. In 2016/2017 (September-October), this product’s shipments to foreign markets somewhat exceeded last season’s: 491.3 KMT against 487.1 KMT a year ago. Although exports in the first two months did not reach the high registered in MY…
Kazakhstan declares its agriculture development plans and takes steps for their fulfillment. The nation has aimed at exporting up to half the production to CIS markets in three years. To achieve this goal, work is under way for attracting investments to various agricultural projects. It is envisaged to engage at least ten trans-national companies into…
Lower-than-usual temperatures (down by 2-4 degrees C from their long-term average) were registered in the west and north-west of Romania. Temperatures above the long-term normal occurred in the south of the country and in its northeastern region named Moldova (2 C). Air temperatures averaged within –8 and +10 C, peaked at +12 C in the…