On October 3-9, Ukraine exported 545.9 thousand tons of grains from the seaports against 1.02 million tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 312 thousand tons, barley – 155.6 thousand tons, and corn – 78.3 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Turkey has proposed to control safety of all food products delivered to the Russian market as well as fine suppliers of unsafe foods, Deputy Minister of Turkey’s Food, Agriculture and Livestock Nusret Yazici said at the meeting with the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergey Dankvert. “The products recognized…
The share of Turkish goods hit by Russian sanctions introduced early in 2016 accounted for 22% in the structure of Russian import from Turkey or nearly $1 billion in 2015, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development said in draft customs and tariff policy guidelines for 2017-2019. If Russian sanctions continue to be in effect by…
Russia is considering shipping 100,000 tons of wheat to Syria as humanitarian aid, a source at Russia’s Agriculture Ministry reported, adding this volume could be supplied via the Black Sea and paid for by Russia’s government. “We will decide on this by the year-end”, the source said. He added that Russia would be also ready…
As of October 6, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 43.3 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 40.7 million ha), or 91.6% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 112.8 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY and as of October 5, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 10.402 million tons, down by 4% YoY (10.819 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared, referring to operative data of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. According to the announcement, the wheat…
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…