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…
Last week Bulgaria’s domestic market of cereal crops saw a rise in purchase prices. The bullish factors for them included strong grain demand, both from traders and processing companies, along with appreciation of the Bulgarian currency against the US dollar. Prices for Bulgarian milling wheat also continued growing on the export market. Over the week,…
Moderately warm weather with precipitation and night frosts to 12 degrees C was observed in the south and south-east of Kazakhstan on October 21-31. Such weather conditions were less favorable for preparation of fields and completion of winter wheat planting. In Almaty region winter wheat is at stages varying from germination to emergence; its growth…
From the start of the 2016/2017 season Allseeds has been steadily increasing the volumes of sunflower seeds processed at its oil-extracting plant in Yuzhny. As of the end of October, net volume of seeds processed amounted to 120 thousand tons, with 110 thousand tons seeds of the new harvest. In September 79% of the plant…
Ukrainian 2016/2017 grain exports could be 7 million tons lower than originally expected due to logistical difficulties and some companies have already redirected shipments from Ukraine to other countries, traders said. Ukraine had planned to ship abroad around 41 million tons of grain in the 2016/2017 July-June season versus around 39 million tons a season…
Belarusian food products are in demand on all the markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Minister Vladimir Koltovich reported. “Foreign partners like Belarusian products. Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs know that the Belarusian quality is high, and our products are welcome on all the CIS markets”, the minister stressed.…
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…