According to State statistics data, stocks of sunseed in Ukraine as of September 1, were 707.6 KMT, down by 2.2% YoY (723.4 KMT). Agro companies had 504.8 KMT and storing plants with crushing capacities – 202.8 KMT. Crushing plants increased sunseed stocks by 5.7% (202.8 KMT against 191.9 KMT as of September 1, 2015). Soybean…
Russian wheat export prices rose last week for the first time since mid-August, buoyed by demand from Egypt after it dropped its policy of not importing wheat containing the ergot fungus. Egypt’s state importer GASC bought 240,000 metric tons of Russian wheat last week, in its first successful tender purchase since abolishing the rule. Egypt…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY and as of September 21, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 7.83 million tons, down by 9% YoY (8.582 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 6.588 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…
In Bashkiria the new vegoil extracting plant is being built with crushing capacity of 1.2 KMT of sunseed per day. Currently the first construction stage has been completed with vegoil press section having the capacity of 350 tons of raw material. The section will be able to produce 47.5 KMT of non-refined vegoil and 50…
In January-August the volume of grain shipment for exports by enterprises of PJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP Group) totaled 3.54 million tons, down by 10.7% YoY, the press-service of the company declared. Also, NCSP Group decreased vegetable oils shipment by 8.7%, to 140 thousand tons. The shipment volumes of chemical cargoes (including mineral fertilizers)…
Oman is ready to invest in the agricultural sector of Belarus, Sergei Rachkov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Egypt with concurrent accreditation to Oman, Algeria and Sudan, said. “One of Oman’s key tasks is to strengthen its food security. Oman shows big interest in the Belarusian agricultural sector in order to invest in…
The Russian agriculture should not be afraid if the food products’ embargo is lifted for the countries, which had imposed sanctions against Russia, as the Russian products are quite competitive, Russia’s minister of agriculture Alexander Tkachev said. “Nobody can be sure whether the sanctions are lifted in late 2017”, he said. “We are interested in…