The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia has increased its estimations of the general wheat harvest in Russia in the current year from the previously forecast index at 71 million tons to 72 million tons, the Director of the Department of plant growing, chemicalization and plant protection at the Ministry of Agriculture Petr Chekmarev declared. At…
Wholesale distribution center constructor RosAgroMarket plans to build a 19.2 billion ruble vegetable storage center in the Rostov region in Russia’s south, a spokesman for the region’s Governor Vasily Golubev reported. RosAgroMarket will start construction of the facility’s first stage in January-June 2017, and will construct 125,000 square meters of shopping and storage area with…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of October 6, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout nearly 15 million ha, or 97.7% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 22.643 million tons of grains, up by 4.962 million tons YoY. The average…
Short-term rains observed last week did not replenish soil moisture stocks considerably and moistened only the upper soil layer. The situation is better in the 10-cm soil layer and sowing campaign is coming to the end in quite good conditions. Plants sown in the first half of September are at the stage of first-third leave…
Regulation of prices for bread in Ukraine leads to the minimum marginality of bakeries work, the General Director and Chairman of the Board at the association Ukrhlibprom Alexander Vasilchenko declared. He informed that the ratio of prices for flour and bread in Ukraine totals 0.3 EUR/kg and 0.35 EUR/kg respectively, whereas in Poland the flour…
Ukrainian farmers continue harvesting sunflower. As of October 3, nearly 3900.4 thousand ha had been threshed, or 66% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha), up by 1.6% YoY (3838 thousand ha). 8382.6 KMT had been obtained with the average productivity of 2.15 MT/ha (in 2015 – 7975 KMT; 2.08 MT/ha). Soybean had been threshed…
In July-August of the 2016/2017 marketing year, PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine sold more than 11 thousand tons of flour milling goods on foreign markets and became the top-performer in the rating of Ukrainian flour exporters, the Director of the Department of marketing and sales of finished goods at PJSC SFGCU Viacheslav…