According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of November 24, 419 thousand ha of corn were threshed, 99.1% of the plan (423 thousand ha). 2209.5 KMT were harvested with the average yield of 5.27 MT/ha. Pace of harvesting is 1.8% higher than in 2015. On the reporting date, average corn yield was 3.9% higher than…
Last week Ukrainian market of crude sunflower oil faced the bullish trend, due to a similar price trend on the export market of the product. As of December 8, the bid prices for sunflower oil in Ukraine mainly varied within the range of 21`500-21`800 UAH/ton EXW, up by nearly 200 UAH/ton WoW. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Due to unfavorable weather conditions during the harvesting campaign of oilseeds in Ukraine in the current year, the average moisture content of sunflower seed varied within the range of 12-20%, and in a few cases it even reached 30%. Of course, agrarians faced additional costs for oilseed drying, so many elevators in Ukraine were almost…
Ukrainian Ambassador to Pakistan Volodymyr Lakomov said that Ukraine wanted to transfer its agro-science knowledge to Pakistan to develop the sector and further boost collaboration in the field. The ambassador said that Ukraine was one of the largest grain producers having great experience in this field and wanted to promote agriculture sector as Pakistan was…
According to the official customs statistics, in October-November Ukraine exported 36.7 thousand tons of malting barley (12.4 thousand tons and 24.3 thousand tons respectively), which significantly exceeded the general figures for six previous seasons (29 thousand tons). At the same time, Poland purchased nearly half of the exported volumes, while Romania and Belarus imported nearly…
By 2021 Kazakhstan plans to have put 610 thousand ha of irrigated farmland into circulation, the Chairman of the Committee for water resources at the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Islam Abishev declared. In the nearest 5 years Kazakhstan plans to restore the irrigation systems of regular irrigated agricultural areas throughout the areas of 610…
Milling wheat continued rising in price on the domestic market on active purchases. Export prices for 11.5%-protein wheat in Bulgaria stay at $176-179 FOB for December-January delivery. Growing demand for Bulgarian wheat is observed from beyond the European Union. Overall, traders substantially increased export shipments of wheat this season. In the first five months of…