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…
As of October 3, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 42.9 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 39.9 million ha), or 90.9% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 111.7 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
On October 4, the National Mercantile Exchange CJSC (NAMEX) held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions in the regional trading platforms of Russia, and purchased 58.725 thousand tons of grains (from the proposed volume of 62.1 thousand tons) valued at 560.473 million RUR, the press-service of NAMEX declared. In…
Russia’s grain harvest can exceed an earlier forecast of 116 million tons in 2016, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachyov announced. “Weather conditions allow me to forecast that we will harvest up to 116 million tons, maybe more”, Tkachyov said. Grain exports have been below the last year’s level, the minister said. “I think that we will…
In Kazakhstan there are nearly 250 milling plant which are able to process 11 million tons of grains, but to date they are loaded at nearly 40.3% of their capacities, the Director of the Grain Processors and Bakers Union of Kazakhstan Evgeny Gan declared. According to him, flour is the major export position, and it…
During the planting campaign in 2016, Kazakhstan increased the planted areas under wheat by 5.9% YoY, oilseeds – by 1.5%, pulses – 1.9 times, sugar beet – by 37.2%, the Committee on statistics at the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan reported. At the same time, in the current year the planted area under corn…
Due to significant increasing of peas production in Ukraine in the current season, the exports of peas in 2016/2017 MY will reach the record level – 450 thousand tons. That is almost twice as much as last year. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)