Ukrainian bakery plants need 2.7 million tons of wheat flour per year. Each year the need in rye flour totals 320 thousand tons, the General Director and Chairman of the Board at the association Ukrhlibprom Alexander Vasilchenko declared. According to him, bread producers are concerned about decreasing of rye production in Ukraine, which results in…
In August Ukrainian barley exports grew by 17% YoY and equaled 1924 KMT against 1019.5 KMT. During the first two months of 2016/2017 (July-August) Ukrainian exporters shipped 2204 KMT of barley, which is an absolute record for the period. Traditionally in August Saudi Arabia lowered its purchases, importing 371 KMT against 523 KMT in the…
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…