Ukraine: planted areas of high-oleic sunflower seed up

During several recent years, the Ukrainian market of high-oleic sunflower seed demonstrated the positive dynamics of development, with annually increasing the planted areas under the oilseed, and its share in the general planted areas of all types of sunflower seed, the oilseed analyst at APK-Inform Agency Julia Ivanitskaya declared. According to APK-Inform estimations, in 2016/2017…

Ukraine: Astarta harvesting campaign

Astarta’s subsidiaries are successfully conducting autumn field works on the harvesting of the technical crops and preparation of soils for the following year. As of the middle of September, the company has already harvested 80% of the area under soybean and 40% under sunflower, the harvesting of the corn has just started. The company carries…

Kazakhstan: 86 thousand tons of grains supplied to Azerbaijan in 2015-2016

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.…