Russia to cover nearly 15% of the global food market

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…

Ukraine: flour production continues to drop

Over the 8 months of 2016 flour production in Ukraine lowered by another 6%. In January-August Ukraine produced 1.212 MMT against 1.288 MMT over the same period of 2015. Flour production went down in all the key producing regions: Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Kiev, Kherson, Odessa, etc. In contrast to the mentioned regions, production in Luhansk region…

Russia: 12.1 million tons of grains exported

According to territorial directorates of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), in July-September the exports of grain crops and its by-products from Russia totaled 12.5 million tons, the press-service declared. The exports of the reporting products, not including cargo movements to the territory of the Customs Union, totaled 12.1 million tons, down…

China: list of Russian grain exporters and storages approved

China has approved a list of Russian wheat, corn, rice, soy and rapeseed exporters and grain storage facilities, Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight said in a statement. According to the document, China allowed imports from about 200 companies from the Omsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Amur, Sakhalin, Kemerovo, Zabaikalsky, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Primorsky regions…