In January-July Ukrainian flour-milling enterprises produced 1.036 million tons of flour, down by 7% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. At the same time, the production volumes in July totaled 149 thousand tons, up by 12.5% MoM and down by 7.2% YoY. In January-July the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine…
In 2016, Belarus plans to increase the harvest of corn for grain 5.5 times YoY, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Vladimir Grakun declared. The harvested areas will total 180 thousand ha, the production volumes – 1.2-1.25 million tons. The reporting volumes will cover the whole possible deficit of the grain. Last year Belarus…
According to the official statistics figures, in 2015/2016 MY the imports of baking mixes for production of bakery products to Ukraine totaled 1.71 thousand tons, down by 23% YoY (2.21 thousand tons). Countries of the European Union became the main suppliers of the product (nearly 97%). Export volumes of baking mixes from Ukraine were almost…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 3.948 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared on August 26. In particular, wheat exports totaled 1.74 million tons, corn – 478 thousand tons, and barley – 1.714 million tons. Ukraine has also supplied nearly 31 thousand tons of wheat…
In the agricultural industry Ukraine has to move in the direction of developing value-added commodities production, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi declared. The Minister noted that large-scale agricultural corporations had fairly good level of development. As for medium and small-scale companies, they have somewhat lower yield level. But at…
Romanian farmers have finished rapeseed harvesting. 2016 rapeseed harvesting campaign was the most productive ever in Romania. For more than 20 years rapeseed acreage in Romania has been expanded to the third largest acreage over the reporting period. In autumn 2015, sowing was carried out at the optimum seeding time. In general, wintering of this…
As of August 22, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the areas of 26.2 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 22.3 million ha), or 55.4% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 80.7 million tons of grains, with the average yield of…