The National Mercantile Exchange will start public purchasing interventions in relation to new crop grains in the coming days, the Director of the Department of regulation of agricultural markets at the Ministry of Agriculture Vladimir Volik declared. According to him, trading operations will run either on September 16, or on September 19. Also, Volik specified…
During the first month of 2016/2017 season Ukraine exported a record monthly volume of peas – about 94 KMT (17.5 KMT in July 2015). The main share of exports was traditionally shipped to the Indian market – 65%. For India it was also a maximum monthly volume of Ukrainian peas imports. Turkey significantly increased purchase,…
The Government of Moldova expects that after signing of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU (DCFTA), the exports of agricultural products to the EU market will grow by 15-18%, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Affairs of Moldova Octavian Kalmyk declared. According to him, the issue is mainly related to…
Egypt has not received any complaints from Russia over the quality of fruit and vegetable supplies, Egyptian newspaper Ash-Shuruk reported citing Ibrahim Imbabi, head of the quarantine office at Egypt’s agriculture ministry. Egypt exports around 320,000 tons of citrus fruits and 200,000 tons of potatoes, as well as onion and pomegranates to Russia, Imbabi said.…
Belarus OAO Praimilk (affiliated with OAO Biocom) has launched a factory in Shchuchin (Grodno region) to process lactoserum and produce serum concentrate, a company official reported. The total value of the project stands at Br97 million ($49.8 million), the factory’s installed capacity – 27,100 tons of serum concentrate a year. The new factory uses a…
The Ministry of Emergency Situations has increased the price of high quality wheat received from local manufacturers from AZN 270 to 280 a ton. As reported, the State Agency for Material Resources under the Ministry of Emergency Situations on June 21, announced procurement of high quality wheat produced in 2016 for the State Grain Fund.…
Hrachya Berberyan, chairman of a union of farmers, has accused wheat-procuring companies of making huge profits out of wheat growing farmers’ hard work. “They pay the farmers from 90 to 120 drams per 1 kg of wheat, however, 1 kg of flour can be used to make more than 1 kg of bread, which sells…