Late October and early November featured a temperature upturn in Bulgaria. The temperature increase against the background of sufficient topsoil moisture reserves caused winter crops to resume their active growth. Exceptions are some parts of South Bulgaria where soil moisture shortages hamper development of winter cereals and rape. Plants of winter wheat and barley seeded…
This season wheat quality issues are particularly acute. An increase in feed grain supply from the Black Sea countries is a characteristic feature of the current season. The growth of milling wheat share in Ukraine will be offset by increased feed wheat production in Russia and Kazakhstan. Traditionally, Kazakhstan produces grain of highest quality compared…
Belarus is interested in assimilating Poland’s innovative technologies for processing fruit and vegetables. Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun made the statement during negotiations with a Polish delegation in Minsk on November 8. The meeting was held to discuss the development of bilateral cooperation. The official said that Belarusian companies took an interest…
Belarus’ food exports are projected to total $2.1 billion in 2016, Alexei Bogdanov, the head of the main division for foreign economic affairs at the Agriculture and Food Ministry of Belarus, said. “According to preliminary data, in January-October the export growth dynamics was not bad. In monetary terms, the export amounted to 99.3% compared to…
Agrarians of Kazakhstan are gradually getting interested in cultivating oilseed crops due to their profitability. Currently, oilseed price is 2-3 times higher than price of wheat depending on the quality. Moreover, interest comes not only from the side of Kazakh farmers, but also from the foreign investors. The example is the North-Kazakh region, where farms…
As of November 8, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 57.23 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 13.017 million ha, or 91% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.4 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 57.7…
The current 2016/2017 soybean season is completely different from the past one, except for the fact that Ukraine is unlikely to obtain soybean crop higher than 4 MMT again. Each marketing year has its own characteristic features. The 2016/2017 soybean season can be characterized by the following: Planted area reduction due to low production profitability…