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)
Harvesting campaign in Kazakhstan is coming to its end. Kazakh farmers gathered 22 MMT of grain from 95% of the intended area owing to high productivity. Average grain yields in the country surpassed the last year’s level by 25%. As expected, this season Kazakhstan will obtain record high grain crop over the last five years.…
The downward trend in Ukrainian export market changed to some price growth. Last week wheat export prices strengthened. The prices for 2nd grade wheat (12.5% protein) grew by $1 to $168-170/MT FOB, while 3rd grade wheat prices (11.5% protein) reached $161-164/MT FOB for October delivery. Some recovery of importers’ demand for October-November was observed on…
Ukrainian broiler meat production is growing even faster than thought, thanks to record exports and steady consumer demand, US officials said. The improving economic situation in Ukraine is allowing producer to up their output, and the bumper grain harvest this year will help margins next year, the US Department of Agriculture’s Kiev bureau said. The…
In August large and medium-sized enterprises produced 11.5 KMT of margarine against 15.7 KMT in the previous month. August volume was almost in line with production in August 2015 (11.6 KMT). The lag is only 0.1 KMT, which is minimal in January-August. Since the beginning of 2016 (January-August) Ukrainian enterprises produced 108.2 KMT against 128.8…
The last week of September has come to the end with moderately warm weather conditions and low amount of precipitations. Average air temperature was within +9.5 ..+13.9 C, down by 1-6 C from the norm. In the northern regions temperature of upper soil layer lowered to -2 C in some places. Precipitations did not replenish…