The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia set a task to double the production volumes of corn in the country in the short term, the Director of the Department of plant growing, chemicalization and plant protection at the Ministry of Agriculture Petr Chekmarev declared. At the same time, Chekmarev reminded that in general, the Ministry planned…
According to official data, as of August 19, Russian farmers have threshed 24.4 million ha (51.7%) of grains and legumes against 21.5 million ha as of the same date in 2015. 77.4 MMT was harvested with average yield of 3.17 MT/ha (in 2015 – 61.4 MMT with 2.85 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 15.1 million…
The beginning of 2016/2017 season was characterized by constantly raised grain production estimates. Revision of harvesting area expectations and record high grain yields were the main drivers of crop estimates increase. Rosstat informed that winter crops losses were only 364 thousand ha during wintering. This is 3.1% of total planted area compared to February estimates…
In the 2015/2016 marketing year rapeseed gross production in Russia reached slightly more than 1000 KMT. This result was obtained in conditions of decreasing planted area for the second consecutive season to 1038 thousand ha compared with record 1326 thousand ha in the 2013/2014 marketing year. In addition to acreage reduction, the productivity has also…
As of September 5, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 34.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 27.7 million ha), or 73% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 95.6 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of August 31, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 5.366 million tons, down by 7% YoY (5.781 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 4.494 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…
The 2015/2016 grain season is coming to an end in Kazakhstan (September 2015 – August 2016). High exports of basic grain crops and flour, was the main feature of the 2015/2016 marketing year in Kazakhstan, as well as in Ukraine and in Russia. However, in case of Kazakhstan, grain shipments did not reach all-time high,…