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…
On September 19-25, the export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 747.4 thousand tons, against 229.4 thousand tons shipped on the previous week. In particular, the wheat shipments totaled 595.3 thousand tons, barley – 5.8 thousand tons, corn – 136.9 thousand tons, and peas – 9.4 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia estimated the general grain harvest in the country in the current year at the level of 110-115 million tons, the minister Alexander Tkachev said. At the same time, he added that Russia produced the similar volumes of grains 25 years ago, in 1991. According to Tkachev, Russia plans to…
Police in the Russian Far Eastern city of Chita have seized nearly 58 tons of vodka with forged excise stamps worth over 22 million rubles, the press service of the Interior Ministry department in the Zabaikalsky Krai said. “The police have seized a large batch of alcohol at one of warehouses in Chita’s Ingodinsky districts.…
On September 19-25, Ukraine exported 648.4 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 596.1 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 579.5 thousand tons, barley – 64.9 thousand tons, and corn – 4 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
According to the draft State Budget of Ukraine for 2017, the Government will provide some funds to support the buckwheat and rye markets to stimulate production rates of the reporting grains in Ukraine, the Director of the food products department at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Moroz declared. According to…