In January-August fish and seafood products worth $77 million were imported from Norway to Ukraine, which makes 78% of total imports from Norway. According to acting State Fiscal Service Deputy Head Myroslav Prodan, there are no systemic problems with the customs valuation of fish and seafood products from Norway, and thus the positive trend is…
During several recent seasons, Kazakhstan demonstrated significant differences in the grain harvest volumes per year. However, even in bad harvest years grain production volumes were enough to completely meet the country’s domestic and export requirements, the Director of the Grain Processors and Bakers Union of Kazakhstan Evgeny Gan declared. He said that previously wheat covered…
FESCO Transportation Group and Rusagro Group have signed an Agreement of intent to arrange a special-purpose technology based on the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port (part of FESCO Group) infrastructure to handle export agricultural products, FESCO says in a press release. The agreement is intended to optimize the supply logistics of Rusagro goods to the Asia…
As of September 29, agricultural organizations of Belarus planted winter grain crops throughout 1.12 million ha, or 83.4% of the plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared. Also, agrarians continued the harvesting campaign. In particular, Belarus harvested 197 thousand tons of corn for grain throughout the areas of 26.7 thousand ha (15.1%). The average…
Turkey is interested in agrarian products and research institutions in the agricultural sector. This has been said by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva after the third meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish working group on agriculture. “Ukraine is interested in exports of vegetable oils, including sunflower, as well as…
Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of September 26, 3160.6 thousand ha had been threshed, or 53% of the planned area (5916.2 thousand ha), down by 2% YoY (3227 thousand ha). 6757.6 KMT was obtained with the average yield of 2.14 MT/ha (in 2015 – 6619 KMT with yield of 2.05 MT/ha). Soybeans had…
In August Ukraine exported 2851.2 KMT of wheat, up by 50% YoY (1892.8 KMT). Over the first two months of the current season Ukrainian exporters shipped 34% more wheat than over the same period of last season (3575.5 KMT against 2662.4 KMT in July-August 2015/16). Thailand is still the key importer of Ukrainian wheat with…