French company Danone is considering the prospects of purchasing a third dairy plant in Belarus. Belarusian Prime-Minister Andrei Kobyakov made a statement to this effect at a meeting with French Ambassador in Minsk Dominique Gazuy upon completion of her diplomatic mission to Belarus. The premier said: “French companies have been paying attention to Belarus in…
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),…
According to market operators, since the beginning of September Ukrainian exporters shipped 150 KMT of wheat to India. It should be noted, that over July-August Ukraine exported about 240 KMT of wheat in this destination. India started purchasing Ukrainian wheat in June, buying about 52 KMT. Last time India bought Ukrainian wheat was 10 years…
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…
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…
As of September 15, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 38.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 34 million ha), or 81.4% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 103.2 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
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…