In 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine will remain the global leader in sunflower seed production with the figure of 13-13.5 million tons, up by 1.8-2.3 million tons (or by16.3-20.7%) YoY, the General Director at the Association Ukroliyaprom Stepan Kapshuk declared. According to him, almost complete processing of sunflower seed on the domestic market of country, due to…
In 2015/2016 MY, Kazakhstan exported 86 thousand tons of grains to Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. According to the announcement, Azerbaijan remains one of the traditional export markets for Kazakh grains. But during several recent years Azerbaijan reduced purchases of Kazakh grains due to increase of domestic production volumes.…
As of September 15, agricultural organizations of Belarus harvested 306.1 thousand tons of rapeseed with the average yield of 1.57 ton/ha. The harvested areas reached almost 195 thousand ha of the oilseed (92.4% of the plan). In addition, agrarians planted winter crops throughout 476.3 thousand ha, or 35.4% of the plan. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
In August Ukraine exported 258.3 KMT of sunoil against 352.9 KMT in the previous month and 224 KMT in July 2015. Over 2015/2016 season (September-August) Ukraine shipped 4479 KMT of sunoil against 3870 KMT in 2014/2015, setting a new record. Among the key importers of Ukrainian sunoil were European countries (about 32% of all exports),…
As of September 15, Ukrainian sugar plants produced 94 thousand tons of sugar, Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine reports. Currently, 21 sugar plants are running in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Cherkassy regions. Ukraine’s sugar production output reached 93.8 thousand tons on September 14. A total…
Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight is concerned with the fact that Egypt ignores existing problems regarding violations in fruit and vegetable supplies. Egypt has ignored a necessity to take urgent phytosanitary measures after the Russian service reported about four quarantine cases with citrus fruit supplies from Egypt at the end of the…
As of September 12, winter grains had been sown at 7404.8 thousand ha, 42.7% of the plan (17.35 million ha). On the same date of 2015 sowing had been carried out at 6741.7 thousand ha. In Ural federal district winter sowing was carried out at 94% – at 63.9 thousand ha, in Privolzhsky – at…