Pessimistic scenario shows that less than 70% of potential area will be planted with spring crops in Ukraine this year, Taras Vysotsky, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, has said. “If we manage to free arable lands of Chernihiv and Sumy regions from mines, the area may reach 80% of the potential,” he…
With a share of 17% in total production, Poland is the third-largest producer of eggs in the European Union, a deputy head of the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) has said. Marcin Wronski said that the supply of domestic eggs far exceeded domestic demand, making Poland one of the largest exporters of eggs in…
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine makes efforts to resume agri-food exports to foreign countries. As the ministry’s press service informs, tens of millions of tons of agricultural products intended for export are currently stored in the country. Due to transportation problems, Ukraine is short of $1.5 billion a month, while other…
Inspectors of the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) have found a batch of imported strawberries with exceeded maximal limit of residuum of Acetamiprid pesticide. According to ANSA, the sale of the non-conforming consignment was prohibited and an instruction was issued to withdraw it from trade. With the appearance of new season fruits and vegetables, the…
This year, agricultural producers will increase the area under sugar beets with the support of “Ukrprominvest-Agro”. The management of the holding held a working meeting with almost 40 agricultural producers on the work of the joint food program “Sugar beet – the choice of the smart” in wartime. The meeting was held at “Zorya Podillya”,…
More than 13,000 tons of Moldovan apples from the 2021 harvest were exported to markets other than the Russian Federation, such as the European Union, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf and North Africa. More than 2,000 tons have already been exported over long distances in sea containers. For the first time, apples produced in Moldova…
In the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, all shops in Lithuania were seemingly out of salt. Why did people in the country panic-buy salt and why did it disappear from the shops in the first place? Most of Lithuania’s salt supplies were imported from Ukraine, according to representatives of Maxima and Lidl, two major…