As of October 20, agricultural organizations in Belarus continued harvesting corn for grain and sugar beet, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared. In particular, agrarians harvested 627.1 thousand tons of corn throughout the areas of 75.5 thousand ha (59.3%), with the average yield of 8.3 ton/ha. Last year the grain production volumes totaled 232.3…
Cold air temperature, falling below zero at night on the major part of the Belarus contributed to slower vegetation processes of grain crops and winter rapeseed. In the first half of October sum of effective temperatures (above +5 degrees C) totaled about 40-60 C‘, up by 10-20 CYoY. Winter crops sown in mid-September are at…
In the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, the export rates of Ukrainian grains demonstrated rather high rates. In particular, in the beginning of the season Ukraine exported record volumes of barley, the First Deputy Chairman of the Board at State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine PJSC Borys Prykhodko declared. According to him, the export volumes…
In January-September Azerbaijan increased export of agricultural products by 31.9% YoY, the country’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Seyfaddin Talibov said. He said that about 90% of agricultural products of Azerbaijan was exported to Russia. “We hold 11th place among exporters of agricultural products to Russia”, Talibov said. “2.7% of Russian imports of fruit and 3.5%…
According to Ukrainian ministry of agrarian policy a lot of work is being done on strengthening of trade relationships with China. Currently it is planned to enlarge the list of agro commodities exported to China and to open Chinese market for Ukrainian berries and sunflower meal. It should be noted, that trade volumes in oilseed…
According to the official statistics figures, in September Ukraine exported nearly 15.2 thousand tons of high-oleic sunflower oil, up 3 times MoM (4.8 thousand tons), and up 16 times YoY (954 tons). In September the Netherlands (42%), India (26%), the United Arab Emirates (14%) and Saudi Arabia (10%) became the largest foreign buyers of the…
As of October 17, winter crops had been sown at 5307 thousand ha, or72% of the forecast area – 7374 thousand ha. This included 4804 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale (77% from the planned 6198 thousand ha), 140 thousand ha of rye (95% of 147 thousand ha), 364 thousand ha of barley (35%…