Revenues in the sugar segment of Astarta amounted to EUR 100 million (46% of consolidated revenues). Sugar sales volumes corrected by 11% to 237 thousand tons on the advancing market. Almost 45 thousand tons of white sugar (19% of aggregate sales) was exported. Eight Astarta sugar plants had processed nearly 2 million tons of sugar…
As of November 8, winter crops had been sown at 6844 thousand ha, or 93% of the forecast area – 7374 thousand ha. This included 5836 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale – 94% from the planned (5573 thousand ha in 2015), 157 thousand ha of rye – 106% (144 thousand ha in 2015),…
In 2015/2016 Kazakhstan exported 2157 KMT of flour, up by 27% YoY. The key importer of the last season was Afghanistan, doubling purchases to 1174 KMT flour against 660 KMT in 2014/2015 and accounting for 54% in the total flour export structure against 39% in 2014/2015. Uzbekistan also increased purchases but not essentially (+4%). Exports…
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine forecast some decline in the general agricultural production in the country in 2016 – by 0.2% (+/- 0.3%) YoY, in terms of the positive dynamics in plant growing industry, and negative dynamics – in animal husbandry, the press-service of the ministry declared. According to the announcement,…
During the last week of October average daily air temperature was 1-7 degrees lower than the norm with minimum lowered to -0.5 C in the Western regions during the night, and to -10 C in the Central, in the Southern and eastern regions – – 4-8 C. Soil surface cooled to -6-10 C. Precipitation of…
Ukrainian farmers are completing sunseed harvesting. As of November 8, they gathered sunseed from 5716 thousand ha or 97% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha), up by 14.5% YoY (4992 thousand ha). Farmers obtained 12752 KMT of sunseed with the average yield of 2.23 MT/ha, which is all-time high for Ukraine. In 2015 farmers…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved of new increased minimum alcohol prices, in particular, the floor price of a half-liter bottle of vodka was increased from 54.90 to 69.78 UAH. “The revision was required as prices set since September 2015 have not met real expenses of producers”, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade…