Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of October 24, 5171.1 thousand ha had been threshed, or 87% of the intended area – 5916.2 thousand ha, up by 6.5% YoY (4856 thousand ha). 11341.3 KMT had been obtained with the average yields of 2.19 MT/ha, which is all-time high for Ukraine. On the same date…
In the first quarter of 2016/2017 MY, PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine shipped 15.1 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets, up by 6.4 thousand tons YoY, the Director of the department of elevator operations and finished products sales at PJSC SFGCU Gennady Gordienko declared. Provision of demand for grain by-products is…
In January-September Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 1.392 million tons of flour, down by 5.6% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the production volumes in September totaled 181 thousand tons, up by 2.8% MoM and down by 3.2% YoY. In January-September the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine totaled…
Belarusian producers of poultry meat have plans to obtain certificates to sell products to the European Union, Alexei Bogdanov, the head of the main division for foreign economic affairs at the Agriculture and Food Ministry of Belarus, reported. “Work is underway to get products of Belarusian poultry farms certified for export to the European Union.…
As of October 1, agricultural enterprises and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine stocked 24.87 million tons of grains and sunflower seed, down by 897 thousand tons YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the carry-over stocks of wheat reached 14.477 million tons, corn for grain – 3.99 million tons, barley…
On October 17-23, Ukraine exported nearly 1 million tons of grains from the seaports, against 506 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 544 thousand tons, barley – 142.6 thousand tons, and corn – 320.1 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Vegetables, fruit, and milk in Ukraine are mainly produced by small farms. However, there are virtually no proper conditions for their functioning. This was stated by Raimund Jehle, the Regional Strategic Programs Coordinator for Europe and Central Asia of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “You will be surprised to know that 90% of…