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)
Kazakhstan has exported 992,700 tons of grain and flour in grain equivalent in the current marketing year (2016-2017), the Ministry of Agriculture informs on its website. A marketing year starts on July 1 and lasts till June 30 of the next year. Thus, since July 1, Kazakhstan has shipped 544,100 tons of grain and 341,000…
As of September 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 4.83 million tons (up by 1.8 million tons MoM), the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 529.8 thousand tons of grains. Wheat formed the major…
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…
In terms of the current situation on the global market of high-oleic sunflower oil, when the market segment demonstrates noticeable reduction of activity from major customers, fall of bid prices for the product, as well as purchasing prices for the raw material and price premiums, in 2016/2017 MY Ukraine will be able to process and…
In 2016/2017 MY, the market of sunflower seed and sunflower oil in Ukraine will face the bearish trend, the Consultant at Agritel International Oleksandra Suslova declared. According to Agritel forecasts, the prospect of record harvest volumes of sunflower seed in Ukraine will have its critical pressure on prices, despite the large number of processing enterprises…
Agrometeorological conditions for soil preparation and autumn sowing vary all over the country. Waterlogging of 10-cm soil layer was noted in some places of Vitebsk, Grodno and Minsk regions due to the rains, which complicates the conditions of field works. During the next few days the top layer of waterlogged soil will dry due to…