The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine forecast some decline in the general agricultural production in the country in 2016 – by 0.2% (+/- 0.3%) YoY, in terms of the positive dynamics in plant growing industry, and negative dynamics – in animal husbandry, the press-service of the ministry declared. According to the announcement,…
During the last week of October average daily air temperature was 1-7 degrees lower than the norm with minimum lowered to -0.5 C in the Western regions during the night, and to -10 C in the Central, in the Southern and eastern regions – – 4-8 C. Soil surface cooled to -6-10 C. Precipitation of…
Ukrainian farmers are completing sunseed harvesting. As of November 8, they gathered sunseed from 5716 thousand ha or 97% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha), up by 14.5% YoY (4992 thousand ha). Farmers obtained 12752 KMT of sunseed with the average yield of 2.23 MT/ha, which is all-time high for Ukraine. In 2015 farmers…
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…