China plans to offer its direct investment for the construction of commercial dairy farms in Vitebsk region, Vitebsk region governor Nikolai Sherstnev reported after the ceremony to inaugurate the new meat-processing workshop at Glubokoye Meat Packing Plant. “We have agreed on the implementation of one big project. China plans to build two commercial dairy farms…
As of October 13, agricultural organizations in Belarus continued harvesting corn for grain and sugar beet, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared. In particular, agrarians harvested 377.6 thousand tons of corn throughout the areas of 47.3 thousand ha (26.7%), with the average yield of 7.99 ton/ha. Last year the grain production volumes totaled 174.4…
Azerbaijan and Iran intend to cooperate in protection and quarantine of plants. An agreement on this was recommended at a meeting of Azerbaijani Parliament’s Agrarian Policy Committee on October 14. Eldar Ibrahimov, chairman of the committee, said that given Azerbaijan’s neighborhood with Iran, it was very important to establish control over the import of vegetables…
In January-September the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 0.9% YoY at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine announced. In particular, the production of plant growing products grew by 2.4%, while livestock products was down by 2.6%. According to the statistics data,…
As of October 11, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 46.668 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 11.403 million ha, or 80% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.09 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year production volumes reached 47.2 million…
As of October 10, winter crops had been sown at 4723 thousand ha, which was 64% of the forecasted area – 7374 thousand ha. This included 4313 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale (70% from the planned 6198 thousand ha), 132 thousand ha of rye (90% of 147 thousand ha), 278 thousand ha of…
Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of October 10, 4457.9 thousand ha had been threshed or 75% of the plan (5916.2 thousand ha), down by 1.7% YoY (4537 thousand ha). 9718.5 KMT had been obtained with the average productivity of 2.18 MT/ha. Last year on the same date 9624 KMT had been gathered with…