Kazakhstan: oilseed stocks down

As of July 1, oilseed stocks totaled 260.5 KMT, down by 61.3 KMT YoY (321.8 KMT). Thus, availability of sunflower seeds grew by 10.7 KMT to 104.1 KMT. Soybean stocks were only slightly lower – 30.8 KMT against 31.9 KMT, and rapeseed stocks were two times as low – 28.9 KMT against 60.1 KMT last…

Russia to increase grain export volumes

In several following months, Russia will continue increasing the export shipments of grains, which will reach their peak in August-September period, the Deputy Director of the strategic management department at Rusagrotrans CJSC Igor Pavensky announced on July 26. Due to the course of harvesting campaign, the export volumes of grains will continue growing, and in…

Russia: 32 million tons of grains harvested

As of July 21, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the areas of 8.1 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 6.7 million ha), or 16.2% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 32.7 million tons of grains, with the average yield of…

Ukraine: flour production down in H1 2016

In January-June Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 888 thousand tons of flour, down by 7% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. At the same time, the production volumes in June totaled 132 thousand tons, up by 0.7% MoM and down by 14.6% YoY. In January-June the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in…