Russia will lift restrictions on import of all citrus fruit, pears and plums from Turkey, assistant head of Russian phytosanitary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor Alexei Alexeenko reported. “These are all citrus fruit and drupes, traditional fruit for Turkey – pears, plums, etc.”, Alexeenko said. Fruit will be supplied to Russia from regions free from quarantine pests and…
As of October 10, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 43.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 41.7 million ha), or 92.1% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 113.8 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
In August Russia exported 349.8 KMT of barley, down by 42.5% YoY (606.7 KMT). During two months of the season shipments decreased by 33% – to 801.9 KMT against 1197.9 KMT in July-August 2015/2016 MY. In addition, according to market operators, barley exports from Russia continued to decline in September. During the reporting period shipments…
In January-September the seaports of Russia increased the shipment volumes of grains by 2.1% YoY to 24.3 million tons, the Association of Sea Commercial Ports of the Russian Federation announced. The general cargo turnover in the Russian seaports grew by 5.7% YoY and totaled 531.7 million tons. According to the announcement, the export cargo shipment…
In 2015/2016 MY, profitability of Ukrainian flour exports is quite low in comparison with other countries, the adviser to the Chairman at Agrarian Fund PJSC Sergei Sakirkin declared. According to him, in 2015/2016 MY Ukraine supplied 344 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets valued at $72.29 million, while the USA – 303 thousand tons…
On October 11, National Mercantile Exchange CJSC (NAMEX) held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions in the regional trading platforms of Russia, and purchased 44.415 thousand tons of grains (from the proposed volume of 49.95 thousand tons) valued at 407.325 million rubles. In particular, the fund purchased 6.75 thousand…
Lipetsk Region of the Russian Federation is interested in expanding food supplies from Belarus. Cooperation prospects in the area were discussed during the official visit of the delegation from Lipetsk region led by Deputy Head of the Administration Andrei Kozoderov to Belarus on October 3-6. The delegation of Lipetsk region got familiar with the Belarusian…