Belarus’ sugar manufacturers association (Belsugar) is due to hold an open tender on December 2, to choose suppliers of 106,500 units of sugar beet seeds worth Br21.5 million ($11.251 million), a Belsugar official reported. Both resident and non-resident companies are invited to take part in the tender. The closing date for applications is December 1.…
As of November 1, in Ukraine the production of grains and pulses totaled 56.106 million tons in bunker weight, up by 0.1% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. According to the official statistics figures, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 13.19 million tons of sunflower seed in bunker weight (up by 19%), and 8.968 million tons…
Azerbaijan is showing interest in the Belarusian experience of developing agro-towns and the country’s food industry. The matter was discussed at a meeting between Belarus Vice Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy and the Azerbaijani delegation led by Ganja Mayor Elmar Valiyev on November 16. “Since you are interested in agriculture and, first of all, agro-towns, we…
As of November 15, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 59.285 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 13.279 million ha, or 93% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.46 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 58.4…
Plans have been made to adopt a document formalizing the intended figures of food export to Russia in February 2017, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats reported. The official specified that Belarus was planning to sell some 4.1 million tons of milk and dairy products and over 300,000 tons meat and meat products to…
Ukrainian farmers are completing sunseed harvesting. As of November 14, they harvested 5816 thousand ha, or 98% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha). That was 16% more than on the same date last season (4992 thousand ha). Farmers obtained 13159 KMT of sunseed with an average yield of 2.26 MT/ha, which is an all-time…
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) in July-September saw $8 million of net loss compared to $24 million of net profit a year ago. According to a financial report of the company, revenue grew by 6%, to $369 million, gross profit – by 20%, to $89 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell by…