ARVIBelAgro LTD joint venture (Lida, Grodno region) plans to launch a turkey meat facility in November, a company official reported. By November the company plans to have commissioned 15 poultry houses and launched a slaughterhouse. German-made and Polish-made equipment is now being installed at the slaughterhouse, the official informed. At the moment, the investment value…
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine supports cancellation of price controls for food products, including grain by-products, the Director of the food products department at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Moroz declared. According to him, the Ministry provides the reporting cancellation of price regulation as an experiment. If in…
As of September 1, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones) and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine, stocked 24.439 million tons of grains and sunflower seed, down by 2.7 million tons compared with the same date in 2015, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the carry-over stocks of wheat reached 17.703 million…
Barley harvesting in Russia entered the final straight. More than 18.2 MMT of barley were collected from about 93% of acreage, which already exceeds last year’s harvest. This year Russia will obtain 9% more barley than a year before. Undoubtedly, export potential will also grow in the 2016/2017 season. Experts believe that it may surpass…
Last week slight increase in average new crop sunflower seed prices was observed in Russian Federation due to limited supply. Harvesting has already started and farmers work mostly “for stocks”. The price fluctuated in the range of RUB 21500-24000/MT including VAT with delivery to the plant depending on the region. Major market participants were ready…
Nibulon’s transshipment terminal in Kherson region has officially handled 1 million tons of grain and oilseeds. The terminal began operation in 2012. In its four years of operation the terminal has received, processed and shipped 481,000 tons of wheat, 244,100 tons of barley, 139,700 tons of corn, 91,200 tons of rapeseed and 57,000 tons of…
On September 12-18, hot weather retained all over Moldova with lack of rains. Average air temperatures during the week reached +19-22.4 C, which was higher than the norm by 5-6 C. Maximum air temperature increased to +34 C, which was observed once in 20 years. At 80% of the territory total sum of precipitations was…