Russia: nearly 90 million tons of grains harvested

As of September 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 88.7 million tons in bunker weight, up by 25.6% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced. The agricultural organizations, which concentrated 67.9% of the whole planted areas under grains and pulses (excluding corn),…

Ukraine: agricultural output up in January-August 2016

In January-August the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 1% YoY at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine announced. In particular, the production of plant growing products grew by 1.7%, while livestock products output was down by 2.4%. According to the statistics…

Ukraine: 8.5 million tons of grains exported

Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 8.51 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, wheat exports totaled 5.1 million tons, corn – 583 thousand tons, and barley – 2.78 million tons. Also, flour exports reached 64.4 thousand tons. According to the announcement, nearly 435…

Russia: sunflower exports up in July 2016

In July 2015/2016 MY Russia exported 0.8 KMT of sunflower against 11.5 KMT in the previous month and 1.3 KMT in July 2015. Since the beginning of 2015/2016 (September-July) Russian exporters shipped 60.2 KMT of sunflower, up 1.5 times YoY. More than 50% of all exports were shipped to Turkey. Share of Iran and Azerbaijan…

Russia: wheat flour production down

In January-August the production volumes of crude sunflower oil and its fractions in Russia totaled 2.4 million tons, up by 10.6% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) declared. At the same time, the production of wheat and wheat-rye flour decreased by 0.5%, to 5.7 million tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)