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…
This marketing year, Ukraine is not threatened by a shortage of sunflower oil, Stepan Kapshuk, CEO of Ukroliyaprom, has said. “The level of consumption of sunflower oil in Ukraine in packaged form is about 20-25 thousand tons per month, 400 thousand tons – per year, while the oil and fat industry, according to the forecast…
Ternopil region began sugar beet sowing campaign. This was announced by the head of the crop department of the regional department of agri-industrial development Nadiya Voskresenska. According to her, the weather conditions this year are favorable for spring sowing operations. (Ukrsugar/Business World Magazine)