Prices of fruit and vegetables have risen in Dushanbe in several days ahead of Idi Ramazon of Eid ul-Fitr, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Prices for some agricultural goods at Dushanbe’s bazaars have even doubled. Thus, prices for one kilogram of apples have risen from…
As of July 6, agricultural organizations of Belarus continued harvesting winter barley. Agrarians harvested 15.9 thousand tons of the grain throughout the areas of 3.98 thousand ha (53.7% of the plan), with the average yield of 3.99 t/ha, according to the Ministry of agriculture. Also, agrarians started harvesting winter rapeseed. As of the reporting date,…
Uzbekistan set new requirements to labels of alcohol products. Uzbek Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Certification ordered to make changes in the procedure for marking of labels of the alcoholic products manufactured by enterprises on the territory of Uzbekistan. The order will come into force on October 4. According to new requirements, labels of alcohol…
In terms of keeping of the current rate of global climate warming, in the coming years Ukrainian agrarians may face the significant reduction of the yield indices of soybeans, declared the head of the agrometeorology department at the Ukrainian hydrometeorological center Tatiana Adamenko. Increasing of air temperature indices and rising of carbon dioxide content in…
According to the official statistics data, in September-May period of 2015/2016 MY Ukraine exported nearly 3.2 million tons of crude sunflower oil, an increase of 14% YoY (2.8 million tons). The share of exports in the general production volume of the commodity rose to 84%, against 77% in the previous season. During two recent seasons…
As of July 4, agrarians harvested 2.04 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 576 thousand ha, or 6% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.54 t/ha. At the same time, on the same date in 2015 agrarians harvested 1.53 million tons of grains throughout 502 thousand ha, with the…
According to the official statistics data, in May Ukraine imported 3.9 thousand tons of rye. Belarus became the single country-supplier of the reporting grain volumes. During March-May Ukraine purchased 11.4 thousand tons of rye from the Republic of Belarus, which exceeded the import volumes from other directions in the previous 10 seasons (2.4 thousand tons).…