Ukraine, as well as the whole world, has faced unprecedented economic challenges. Unfortunately, the global economy still feels the effect of 2008 economic crisis, which means new challenges, both for domestic agricultural sector, and for oil and fat business in particular. It’s no secret that Ukraine mainly operates in raw materials markets. A 50% and…
Rye production is steadily declining in Ukraine. If earlier Ukraine was an exporter of rye, before 2014 Ukrainian rye harvest was just enough for domestic consumption only. Over the last two seasons a new trend has emerged – both rye and rye flour imports are growing. The need to import one of Ukrainian traditional grain…
As of October 4, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 45.08 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 11.149 million ha, or 78% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.04 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 43.5…
As of October 3, all regions of Ukraine planted winter rapeseed throughout the areas of 717.5 thousand ha, or 99% of the plan, up by 145 thousand ha YoY, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. Odessa, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Lviv regions showed the largest planted area under winter rapeseed. (APK-Inform/Business…
Asket Shipping company, which is a key cargo shipper of grains in the seaport of Berdyansk, plans to participate in investment project on construction of modern port silo. The company is at the first stage of this project. It plans to construct 8 grain silos with the total storage capacity of 67.5 KMT. Now, except…
As of October 3, winter crops had been sown at 3616 thousand ha, or 49% of the intended area – 7374 thousand ha. This included 3355 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale (54% from the planned 6198 thousand ha), 114 thousand ha of rye (77% of 147 thousand ha), and 147 thousand ha of…
Russia may boost production of organic food, or food produced without genetically modified organisms, and occupy a tenth of the world market in the next two decades, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachyov said. “Russia may occupy up to 10% of the world market of organic products in 20 years”, he said. “Experts forecast that the world…