Some time or other, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation will cancel the export duties on wheat, but the officials will return to discussion of the issue in autumn only, declared the Minister of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev on July 6. According to the Minister, after analyzing the results of the current harvesting campaign,…
Investment of Nibulon into the launch of a river-handling terminal near Voznesensk (Mykolaiv region) totaled 450 million UAH. “The cost of the high-tech terminal located on 12.5 ha was some 450 million UAH”, the company said. The terminal can store 76 thousand tons of grain, the daily capacity of dryers is 4 thousand tons, and…
Georgia exported 19.8 million 0.75-liter bottles of grape wine in January-June, up by 44.5% YoY, the National Wine Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture said. Revenue from wine exports to 40 countries grew by 18% to $46.6 million. According to the agency, the biggest importer was Russia with 10.198 million bottles, up by 56% YoY,…
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…