Ukrainian broiler meat production is growing even faster than thought, thanks to record exports and steady consumer demand, US officials said. The improving economic situation in Ukraine is allowing producer to up their output, and the bumper grain harvest this year will help margins next year, the US Department of Agriculture’s Kiev bureau said. The…
In August large and medium-sized enterprises produced 11.5 KMT of margarine against 15.7 KMT in the previous month. August volume was almost in line with production in August 2015 (11.6 KMT). The lag is only 0.1 KMT, which is minimal in January-August. Since the beginning of 2016 (January-August) Ukrainian enterprises produced 108.2 KMT against 128.8…
The last week of September has come to the end with moderately warm weather conditions and low amount of precipitations. Average air temperature was within +9.5 ..+13.9 C, down by 1-6 C from the norm. In the northern regions temperature of upper soil layer lowered to -2 C in some places. Precipitations did not replenish…
On September 26 – October 2, Ukraine exported 1.02 million tons of grains from the seaports, against 648.4 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 804 thousand tons, barley – 153.8 thousand tons, and corn – 65.7 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
On September 30, the minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi signed the Annex #1 to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and market participants – grain exporters for 2016/2017 MY. The document settles voluntary coordination of the possible volumes of grain exports from Ukraine in 2016/2017 MY,…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of September 28, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 9.436 million tons, down by 3% YoY (9.777 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared, referring to the data of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. According to the announcement, the wheat…
As of September 1, Russian agro enterprises had 722.8 KMT of oilseeds, down by 94.2 KMT or by 11.5% YoY (817 KMT). In August oilseed stocks were 366 KMT higher. Agro companies had 245.4 KMT of sunseed, down by 29.4 KMT and by 10.7% YoY (274.8 KMT). In August sunseed stocks were 95.1 KMT higher.…