Brewery Saku has reported a net profit of EUR 8.1 million for 2021, up by 19% YoY and the strongest result in recent years, driven both by the domestic retail market and by significant export growth. Saku’s sales revenue was EUR 69.35 million in 2021, up by 6.7%. Board member Jaan Harms said: “In terms…
Exports of Polish agricultural and food products grew by 19.5% YoY between January and April, reaching a value of EUR 14.0 billion, the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) reported. Poland exported most of its produce, 75%, to other EU countries in the first four months of the year. The value of shipments to the…
The effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine are already being felt by producers of strong alcohol and spirits in Estonia. Raw material shortages caused by the war are expected to lead to major price increases by fall at the latest. Spirits companies are also preparing for some of their products to disappear from supermarket shelves.…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer have discussed support for Ukraine’s European integration and the organization of green corridors for the export of Ukrainian products. “During a telephone conversation with Karl Nehammer discussed support for Ukraine’s EU integration and green corridors for the export of Ukrainian products. Austria’s role is significant…
Fifty miles south of Warsaw on the route to Krakow lie Europe’s largest orchards, a huge maze of roads and dirt paths winding their way through a jungle of apples. Buried deep in the bush, Tomasz Porowski and Marcin Hermanowicz are helping transform Poland’s relationship with cider. “It was never a big drink in Poland,”…
The Russian invasion has put Ukraine’s pig industry in jeopardy, as large breeding, slaughtering and processing capacities are located in the occupied territories, said Daniil Getmantsev, head of the financial committee of the Verkhovna Rada following a meeting with the Ukraine Meat Industry Association on June 7. “Unfortunately, a critical situation has emerged in the…
On June 13, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky held a videoconference call with his counterpart, the United States Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack, during which a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the U.S. Department of Agriculture…