As of November 14, winter crops were planted on 6911 thousand ha, or 94% of the forecast area of 7374 thousand ha. This included 5888 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale – 95% of the projected area (5597 thousand ha in 2015), 157 thousand ha of rye – 107% (145 thousand ha in 2015),…
Belarus and Venezuela are discussing the launch of supplies of Belarusian food. This issue was addressed during a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Venezuela Oleg Paferov and Venezuela’s Food Minister Rodolfo Marco Torres, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus reported. “The parties discussed the development of bilateral cooperation in the…
Grain harvest in Ukraine in 2016 would total 64 million tons, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kytoviy has said. “We expect that this year we would have a record-breaking harvest of 64 million tons with the average yield of 44 hundredweights per ha”, the minister said. He said that the indicator was…
Ukraine exported 16.4 million tons of grain since early 2016/2017 agricultural year (July-June) as of November 18. Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported that around 9.5 million tons of wheat, 3.9 million tons of barley and around 3 million tons of corn were exported. Some 131,000 tons of flour was exported as of…
The State Service for Food Safety and Consumers’ Rights Protection has imposed a ban on imports of poultry and by-products from Austria. According to the service’s website, with reference to the World Organization for Animal Health, the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was registered at farms in the territory of Austria and Germany.…
Ukrainian agrarians have to increase the share of alternative crops in the structure of agricultural production, including pulses, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi declared. According to him, cultivation of pulses allows diversifying agricultural crops production and improving the soil quality. For example, India is one of the largest countries-importers…
Since the beginning of 2016, Kazakhstan exported nearly 7 million tons of grains including flour in grain equivalent, the Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Gulmira Isayeva declared. According to her, in the current year the country produced a record grain harvest – 23.7 million tons, with the average yield of 1.54…