Russia: seaports grain handling up in H1 2016

According to the Association of Russian Seaports, in January-June grain handling in ports of the country increased by 29.4% YoY, to 12.1 MMT. In the first half of 2016 cargo turnover in Russian seaports grew by 6%, to 344.6 MMT. Such considerable increase in grain handling in Russian seaports became possible due to record export…

Ukraine: grain stocks down

As of July 1, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones), and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine stocked 7.032 million tons of grains (including 3.013 million tons of wheat, 2.178 million tons of corn, 1.512 million tons of barley, 46.5 thousand tons of rye), down by 839 thousand tons YoY, the State Statistics Service of…

Ukraine: markets for grain in season 2016/2017

In 2016 Ukrainian farmers may gather one of the richest grain harvests. Amid low world prices and strong competition, the issue of new markets searching becomes highly important. Considerable increase in wheat imports is expected from several countries: Egypt, Korea, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Growing demand of Korea for wheat imports provides Ukrainian grain…

Ukraine: India enjoying rapeseed oil

Analysis of rapeseed and its processed products exports shows typical reduction of rapeseed supply to foreign markets in favor of its processed products export shipments – rapeseed meal and rapeseed oil. This is evidenced by rapeseed crushing increase in the country. For instance, in the 2015/2016 marketing year the share of crushed rapeseed in total…