As of October 25, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 52.265 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 12.281 million ha, or 86% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.26 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 52.58…
Agriculture contributes 12% to Ukraine’s GDP and every fifth Ukrainian is working in this area. This has been reported by NGO AgroReformsUA, which aims to implement effective reforms in the agrarian sector of Ukraine. “In 2015, the share of agricultural products in the foreign trade of Ukraine reached 38%. This means that the sale of…
According to operative data of the customs statistics, in July-September Ukraine supplied 10.659 million tons of grains to foreign markets. In particular, the export volumes of wheat reached 6.764 million tons, barley – 3.196 million tons, corn – 642 thousand tons, oats – 14 thousand tons, and other grains – 43 thousand tons. The potential…
According to the State Statistics Service, in January-September India imported the largest volumes of Ukrainian agricultural food products in monetary terms – more than 9% of the general export volumes (valued at $959 million), the Deputy Director on scientific work at the National Scientific Center “Institute of agrarian economy” Nikolai Pugachev declared. According to him,…
Minsk will play host to the meat industry forum on October 27-28. Such information is posted on the website of Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Ministry. Experts will discuss topical issues of the industry and the ways to improve the quality of meat products and expand exports. The forum, which will be held on the initiative…
In 2015/2016 total exports of Kazakh wheat reached 3.57 MMT, up by 11.5% YoY (3.2 MMT in 2014/2015). Key importers of the season traditionally were Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Exports in the destination of Iran tripled to 290 KMT. Exports doubled in the destination of China – to 283 KMT against 126.4 KMT in 2014/2015. EU…
High competitiveness of Ukrainian products is one of the obstacles to all Ukrainian goods entering European Union markets, Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutoviy has said. “Our products in Europe are too competitive. The cost of production is low, and Europe puts up barriers to keep them out. We do it…