Almost 25 years after watching the Dawn of Communism collective farm where he grew up land in the dustbin of history, Andrey Burdin is helping turn Russia into something the communists never could: a grain-export powerhouse. Over the last few years, Burdin has tripled the size of his farm on the steppe near the Black…
At the end of September winter crops in the major part of the country were at different stages of development, depending on sowing terms – from emergence to tillering. Conditions and soil moisture stocks were mainly satisfactory. Warmth was insufficient for growth and development of winter crops. Last week rains in the major part of…
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) plans to increase poultry output at its plant in the Netherlands to 10,000 tons per month, MHP Chairman Yuriy Kosiuk has said. “Today we’ve reached 1,500 tons a month. I think our goal is 10,000 tons per month”, he reported. However, he found it difficult to say how soon this volume of…
After long term September drought rains were observed throughout the whole territory of Ukraine last week. Thus, heavy rains were seen in Lvov region (Western Ukraine) – on October 4, daily precipitation totaled 54.3 mm –a lmost a monthly norm (95%). In Kharkov region 10 days precipitation amount varied within 5-12 mm, or 38-92% of…
In January-September the grain terminal JSC Ak Biday Terminal, the subsidiary company of National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC, exported nearly 402.1 thousand tons of grains through its grain terminal in the Aktau port, the press-service of Food Contract Corporation declared. According to the announcement, in the same period of 2015 the shipped volumes totaled…
Decrease in prices for milling wheat was seen at the export market of Kazakhstan. Last week export prices for 12.5% wheat decreased by $20-22 on average in the Aktau port to $163-170/MT FOB. New wheat crop, which is expected to be the highest in Kazakhstan over the past five years, puts pressure on prices. Export…
In the following 15-20 years, Russia will cover nearly 15% of the global food market, and increase the sum of agricultural exports to $150 billion, specialists of the International Independent Institute of Agricultural Policy (MNIAP) forecast. According to the head of MNIAP Elena Skrynnik, globalization of the Russian agricultural exports is one of the main…