Rapeseed harvesting is complete in Ukraine. According to UkrAgroConsult estimates, rapeseed production is likely to be 30% lower than last year. Reduction of harvesting area due to significant winter rapeseed losses (234 thousand ha) was the main reason for production decline. Nevertheless, rapeseed average yields appeared to be higher than expected and even higher than…
As of August 29, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.266 million tons of grains and pulses throughout the areas of 9.793 million ha, or 68% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.91 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes…
Russia plans to increase grain exports to Palestine from 70 thousand tons to 250-300 thousand tons, the Russian-Palestinian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation declared. The Palestinian party is interested in cooperation in the sphere of energy, health care, culture and agriculture. The first contract with the Palestinians for the supply of 70 thousand…
Russia will abandon the wheat export duty until July 2018, Deputy Agriculture Minister Dzhambulat Khautov said. “The export duty on grain will be abolished in Russia until July 2018”, he said. Khautov said that the ministry’s proposal to abandon the Russian wheat export duty had been approved at a meeting held by Deputy Prime Minister…
As of August 29, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 30.8 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 25.7 million ha), or 65.3% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 89.3 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
According to official data, as of August 26, Russian farmers had threshed 29.2 million ha (61.9%) of grains and legumes against 25.7 million ha on the same date in 2015. 86.2 MMT was harvested with average yield of 2.95 MT/ha (in 2015 – 69.3 MMT with 2.7 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 18.1 million ha…
In 2016 Moldova will decrease the harvest of sunflower seed by 30-40% compared with the previously expected indices, due to weather conditions, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova declared. Agrarians noted that the oilseed yield dropped below 2 tons/ha, while the previously expected level totaled 3.5 tons/ha. July drought and heat became…