According to the State Statistics Service, during the first 9 months of 2016 the general turnover of foreign trade of Ukraine in agricultural products (groups 1-24 of UKT VED) totaled $13.5 billion, up by 2.3% YoY, the Deputy Director on scientific work at the National scientific center “Institute of agrarian economy” Nikolai Pugachev declared. He…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering the possibility of financing the projects of Ukrainian grain market operators to expand and modernize their logistics infrastructure, according to the website of this international financial institution. “The project is expected to remove existing bottlenecks related to transportation and storage of cereals, reduce the in-land transportation costs as…
According to the president of Bulgarian Association of Grain and Feed Traders (BAGFT) Martin Rusev, wheat exports are estimated at 3.9 MMT in the 2016/2017 MY, of which 2.1 MMT were shipped abroad in July-October. This part of grain was supplied to the European Union, and wheat was mainly forage (1.8 MMT). Rusev believes that…
In the current season, the prices for rye in Ukraine are comparable to the prices for feed wheat, which will possibly lead to increasing the planted areas of rye, the Commercial Director of Rivne-Boroshno PJSC Roman Tsaruk declared. According to Tsaruk, the composition of Ukrainian soils will contribute to increasing of rye planted areas, because…
In 2015/2016 MY, Ukraine increased the export shipment of vegetable oils by containers, the Associated Partner at Global Ocean Link Pavel Mirzak declared. In particular, container shipping of sunflower oil increased by 24% YoY, soybean oil – 4.8 times. In January-August the port of Odessa covered more than half of the container shipment of the…
According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of October 20, nearly 371thousand ha of corn were threshed, which was 88% of the intended area (423 thousand ha). 1973.1 KMT were harvested with the average yield of 5.32 MT/ha. Harvesting is 16.1% faster than in 2015. As of the reporting date, average corn productivity was 0.2%…
In the coming years, Kazakhstan plans to significantly increase the exports of grains to the market of China – to 1-1.5 million tons annually since 2017-2018 period, with up to 2-2.5 million tons by 2020, the Chairman of the Grain Union of Kazakhstan Nurlan Ospanov declared. According to him, Kazakhstan will increase grain exports to…