In the current year the market of domestic consumption of organic products in Ukraine will grow by 17.6% and exceed the level of 20 million EUR, against 17 million EUR last year, the Head of the Organic Federation of Ukraine Eugene Milovanov declared. According to him, Ukraine has more than 210 certified organic small- and…
The Asian Development Bank approved of a $154 million loan to improve horticulture in Uzbekistan. “ADB’s support will help to expand access to long-term financing for farmers engaged in horticulture, and businesses involved in the supply chain in the field of horticulture”, Bui Minh Ghaip, senior economist for natural resources and agriculture at Regional Department…
Contrary to wheat or flour, barley exports from Kazakhstan started the new season at the slowest pace in the last three years. Kazakh exporters supplied 28.5 KMT of barley to foreign markets in September, down by 58.5% YoY (68.6 KMT). In the first month of the season Iran was still the biggest importer of barley…
In January-October Ukrainian flour-milling enterprises produced 1.572 million tons of flour, down by 5% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the production volumes in October totaled 180 thousand tons, down by 0.4% MoM and by 0.3% YoY. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
As of November 28, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 62.073 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 13.679 million ha, or 95% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.54 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 59.9…
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…