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…
In January-October Azerbaijan exported agricultural products valued at $311.673 million, up by 22.3% YoY, the Ministry of Agriculture declared. According to the announcement, fruit and vegetables formed most of the exports of agricultural products ($270.842 million). In January-October Azerbaijan exported 11.19 thousand tons of raw hides at $12.248 million, and 16.57 thousand tons of oats…
Ukrainian large and medium-sized crushers produced 515.6 KMT of sunoil in October, up by 115.8 KMT MoM (29%, 399.8 KMT) and by 122.6 KMT YoY (31%, 393 KMT). Small mills accounted for over 100 KMT of October sunoil production. The 2016/2017 season’s bumper sunseed crop allowed crushers to make an unprecedented monthly amount of sunoil.…
In 2016 the volume of capital investments in agriculture will exceed the last year figures nearly 1.5 times, to 44 billion UAH, the Head of investment department at the National Scientific Centre Institute of Agrarian Economics Nikolai Kisil declared. In particular, the growth of capital investments was driven by a spike in investment activity after…
JSC National Company Food Contract Corporation announced the increase of the purchasing prices for 3- and 4-grade wheat Triticum aestivum L., the company’s press-service reported. In particular, the prices for 3-grade wheat, purchased to the commercial resources of the company, increased from 41`500-50`000 KZT/ton to 49`000-58`000 KZT/ton for VAT taxpayers (depending on the qualitative indicator),…
Kazakh wheat exports continued expanding in October. Kazakhstan exported 452.8 KMT of wheat in the second month of the season, up by 40% YoY. In the first two months of 2016/2017, Kazakhstan exported 38.7% more wheat YoY (808 KMT), which is a three-year high. The share of Kazakh wheat’s key export destinations – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,…