During 9 months of 2016 Kazakhstan supplied 1.6 million tons of flour to foreign markets, up by 36.2% YoY, the monitoring agency Energyprom.kz reported. In particular, Kazakhstan exported 40.8% of the general flour volumes to the CIS countries (654 thousand tons), including 80.3% of the volumes to Uzbekistan (525 thousand tons). Kazakhstan exported the remaining…
Ukraine as of November 25, had threshed 61.6 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 13.6 million ha (95% of the forecast). According to the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, with the forecast being 5.9 million ha sunflower has been harvested from an area of 5.87 million ha (99%) in…
A huge greenhouse complex of 12 ha has been built in Kazakhstan, KazAgro National Holding reported. The official launch of the complex, the largest in the country, is scheduled for early December. The complex is located in the city of Almaty. The project was worth 6.6 billion tenges and was financed by KazAgro’s subsidiary KazAgroFinance.…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved of a $154 million loan to enhance horticulture value chain development in all 12 regions of Uzbekistan and the autonomous region of Republic of Karakalpakstan. “ADB’s support will help increase access to long-term financing for horticulture farmers and enterprises along the horticulture value chain”, Bui Minh Giap, senior…
By 2050 the annual production of grain crops in Ukraine will total nearly 90 million tons, including nearly 50 million tons of grains for exports, the advisor to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Vladyslava Rutytska declared. According to her, China will become the main country-importer of Ukrainian grains. Nearly one half…
According to official information, Ukraine exported some 1355.3 KMT of corn in October, up by 3% YoY (1314.8 KMT). Nonetheless, Ukrainian corn exports did lag 3.6% behind 2015 in the first two months of the season. Ukraine supplied 1411.9 KMT of corn to foreign markets in September-October (1465.1 KMT at the same time in MY…
According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of November 17, 760.6 thousand ha of sunflower had been threshed, which was 100% of the plan. 1701 KMT had been threshed with an average yield of 2.24 MT/ha. Harvesting campaign showed better results compared to last year. As of November 17, 14.4 thousand ha of soybean has…