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).…
The production of vodka in Russia has increased year on year by 30% in April and 29% in May. The increase has been informally linked to raids carried out by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Tax Service in February. The groups raided a number of illegal vodka factories in the Northern Caucasus, closing…
Current potato prices in Russia take just a third of those levels registered in the mid-February 2015. For the present, farmers from main producing regions are ready to ship at RUB 6-8/kg ($0.07-0.11/kg), and prices of nonstandard produce do not exceed RUB 5/kg ($0.06/kg). For comparison, last year growers were uninterested in selling high-quality potatoes…
This year sunflower planted area for the 2016/2017 crop has already reached 7069.7 thousand ha, which exceeds the intended 6949.6 thousand ha by 120.1 thousand ha. As UkrAgroConsult estimated earlier, planted area may be expanded to 7200 thousand ha. Despite the fact that this area is below the record large acreage of the 2011/2012 season…
Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Control has reconsidered its decision to ban imports of vegetative products from Macedonia, the watchdog’s deputy head Alexey Alekseyenko said after negotiations with the republic’s representatives in Moscow. “Previously, we were concerned over attempts by criminal groups to use fake certificates of Macedonia’s Quarantine and Plant Protection Service”,…