As of July 21, agricultural organizations of Belarus harvested grains and pulses throughout the areas of 192.4 thousand ha, or 8.7% of the planned areas, up by 85 thousand ha YoY. The average yield totaled 3.21 t/ha, the harvested volumes – 617.8 thousand tons of grains, the Ministry of Agriculture declared. Agrarians also harvested winter…
The Arbitrade team has successfully represented a Russian-Latvian group of companies in arbitration under the rules of the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations (FOSFA). The dispute between the client of Arbitrade and a Swiss trading company arose out of an agreement for sale of sunflowerseed oil concluded on the basis of a standard…
Uzbekistan signed 270 contracts on the export of fruit and vegetables valued at $2 billion during the First international fruit and vegetable fair in Tashkent on July 12-16. Uzbekoziqovqatholding said that some 27% of the total volume of products for exports would account for vegetables, 25% for grapes, 20% for fruit, 17.6% for dried and…
As of July 19, agrarians harvested 17.962 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 4.991 million ha, or 52% of the plan (9.6 million ha, according to estimations). The average yield totaled 3.6 t/ha. At the same time, on the same date in 2015 agrarians harvested 13.535 million tons of grains…
In the current year the general grain harvest in Ukraine will exceed 60 million tons, the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Yaroslav Krasnopolskiy declared. According to him, agrarians managed to produce a rather good harvest, and the general production volumes will exceed the level of 60 million tons for the…
Russian companies that have concluded agreements with Tajik agrarians on purchasing potatoes and onions have failed to fulfill their obligations on those agreements, Tajik Minister of Agriculture Sattor Izatullo said. According to him, Russian companies concluded agreements with Tajik onion and potato producers at the beginning of the year but later changed their mind. “I…
The issue of privatization of United Grain Company in 2016 is not active, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev declared. According to him, it is a strategic state-owned company with a controlling block of shares by the government, so to date the issue is not under consideration, and it is untimely.…