As of September 26, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 41.955 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10.603 million ha, or 74% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.96 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year production volumes reached 40.9 million…
UkrAgroConsult indicates the following tendencies: – during 3 months of the season Ukraine shipped abroad over 57% of total rapeseed export capacity; – Ukrainian rapeseed stocks will be enough for only 1-2 months of trade; – soybean productivity is significantly higher than last year; – sunflower seed export forecast for 2016/2017 was raised; – sunflower…
The hot dry summer in the Black Sea region is stirring concerns for the next winter wheat crop, as the European Commission warns on Russian prospects after a hot dry summer. While US wheat sowings are expected to fall sharply this year, in response to low prices, sowings in Russia are expected to boom, thanks…
During several recent seasons, the supplies to North Korea provided the major share of the growth of Ukrainian flour exports, but in 2015/2016 MY the geography of foreign markets for the product markets significantly expanded, the Adviser to the Chairman at Agrarian Fund PJSC Sergei Sakirkin declared. In particular, the share of Asia in the…
Belarus’ farm output grew by 2.2% YoY in January-August to 8.4 billion Belarusian rubles ($4.347 billion at the official exchange rate), a source in the National Statistics Committee (Belstat) reported. Sales of fattened cattle and poultry grew by 3.1% YoY in to 1.055 million tons; milk output grew by 0.9% to 4.14 million tons, and…
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has agreed with grain exporters on the annex to the Memorandum of understanding for 2016/2017 MY. The parties will sign the document in the nearest future. According to the annex to the document (revised on September 22), the forecast export volumes of wheat and meslin mixture…
There is a grey market of flour In Ukraine. If there are nearly 100 kg of flour per year per capita, which is close to the standard, then Ukraine should produce nearly 3.5 million tons of flour products, and taking into account the exports and carry-over stocks, the index should reach nearly 4 million tons.…