A new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been reported on a Ukrainian backyard pig farm in Stavrove, Odessa, close to Moldova. Of the nine pigs on the farm, eight cases were confirmed. All nine pigs died as a result, to prevent the spread of the disease. (ThePigSite/Business World Magazine)
Kazakhstan plans to found the agribusiness export center, which will realize the promotion of domestic agricultural products on foreign markets, the press-service of the Ministry of Agriculture declared. The center will be formed on the basis of JSC National Company Food Contract Corporation within frames of the State program for development of the agro-industrial complex…
Kazakhstan’s total crop of grain after conditioning reached 21.5 MMT, agriculture vice-minister Gulmira Isayeva said. In addition, she said, the nation was going to export 9 MMT of grain. With regard to the outlet markets, according to her, they are the traditional ones: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Iran and China. “Together with the Kazakh Railways we…
It is an open secret that India is the key destination market for Ukrainian sunseed oil. 1.4 MMT of this commodity was shipped to the country from Ukraine in 2015/2016. That volume represented 31.6% of Ukraine’s total sunseed oil exports. However, nobody could have imagined that India would take interest in Ukrainian sunseed meal. The…
A new plant for processing of oil raw materials will open on the basis of large enterprise LLP “Taiynsha-May” in the village of Ilichevka. Chinese investors will help with the construction. The plant will consist of 3 lines for deep processing of sunflower, rapeseed and other oilseed crops with a capacity of 300 thousand tons…
The company ADM has completed upgrade of an oilseed crushing plant in the town of Chornomorsk, Odessa region. Apart from having doubled the plant’s crushing capacity, its new equipment allows processing rapeseed, in addition to sunseed, and makes the production cheaper and more competitive. “We are excited to reopen our improved and enhanced oilseed processing…
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine estimated the general grain harvest in the country in 2016 at the level of 64.2 million tons with the average yield of 4.48 ton/ha, up by 4 million tons YoY, the press-service of the ministry declared. In particular, corn will form the major growing trends to…