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)

Ukraine: farmers called to export lentil to India

Indian Ambassador to Ukraine Manoj Kumar Bharti has called on Ukrainian farmers to export lentil to India. “In 2015, Canada exported 500,000 tons of lentil to India. If Canada can export lentil, why doesn’t Ukraine export it?” he said at a roundtable in the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv. “India’s population is mainly vegetarians, and lentil…