As of September 22, agricultural organizations of Belarus planted winter grain crops throughout 805.8 thousand ha, or 59.9% of the plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared. Also, agrarians continued the harvesting campaign. In particular, Belarus harvested 97 thousand tons of corn for grain throughout the areas of 14.4 thousand ha (8.13%). The average…
Belarus reports a quantitative increase in exports of meat and dairy products in January-July, according to Belstat. Meat export grew by 12.6% YoY to 180,200 tons, the average price was down by 16.1% to $2,092 per ton. In value terms, Belarus’ meat exports fell by 5.5% to $377.058 million. The CIS states were the major…
In August Ukraine exported 2851.2 KMT of wheat, up by 50% YoY (1892.8 KMT). Over the first two months of the current season Ukrainian exporters shipped 34% more wheat than over the same period of last season (3575.5 KMT against 2662.4 KMT in July-August 2015/2016). Thailand became the key importer of Ukrainian wheat with purchases…
In January-August the average selling prices of agricultural enterprises for agricultural products increased by 7.4% YoY, the press-service of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, in the reporting period the average prices for plant growing commodities grew by 19.4%, and the prices for livestock commodities dropped by 0.9%. Also, in August the…
Another vegoil extracting plant has been opened in Ukraine. In Lvov region on the basis of D-Mix ltd a new plant on oilseed crushing was launched. Planned crushing volume is 50 KMT of oilseeds and the expected turnover is 550 million UAH a year. (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)
Ukrainian farmers continue harvesting sunflower. As of September 19, 2362.2 thousand ha or 40% of the intended area had been threshed (5905 thousand ha), down by 8% YoY (2183 thousand ha). 4963.1 KMT of sunseed had been obtained with the average yield of 2.1 MT/ha. Last year on the same date 4374 KMT had been…
In August exports of Russian soybean meal equaled 28.9 KMT against 34.6 KMT in the previous month. Total exports in 2015/2016 grew to another record. Russia managed to overcome export lag in May, compared to the previous season, and this tendency remained till the end of the season. In 2015/2016 (September-August) 474.6 KMT of soybean…