The tangerines harvest season has just ended in Georgia, and 31 thousand tons of mandarin out of 50 thousand tons were exported from the country in September-January 2019-2020, announced the Ministry of Agriculture. This year Georgia exported 5% more tangerines than in the same period of 2018. Mostly, tangerines were exported to Russia – 20…
Ukraine exported about 7.7 thousand tons of oats in July-December 2019-2020 MY, up 1.5-fold YoY (5.2 thousand tons). Top-5 importers of Ukrainian oats included India with the share of 77%, Libya – 5%, Hungary – 4%, Switzerland – 3% and Germany – 2%. Victoria Rozhko, analyst of APK-Inform, informed that India had been the main…
Georgian wine was listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest. The oldest wine was made in Georgia 8,000 years ago. This fact is confirmed by the remains of grapes in earthenware discovered during archaeological excavations. The earthenware found in Georgia is the oldest wine glassware to date. Earlier, the most ancient archaeological evidence of…
Egg production in Ukraine grew by 3.4% YoY in 2019, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. Last year, Ukraine produced 16.68 billion eggs. In particular, agricultural enterprises produced 9.36 billion eggs (+5.2%) and households – 7.32 billion eggs (+1.2%). The largest number of eggs in 2019 was produced in the Kyiv region – 3.31…
Prime Minister Askar Mamin has chaired a meeting to discuss the development of cattle breeding in the country. Minister of Agriculture Saparkhan Omarov reported on measures taken to increase the number of cattle and beef production as well as regions’ potential for the development of beef cattle breeding. According to preliminary data, in 2019 gross…
The State Agency of Fisheries of Ukraine says Ukrainian enterprises in January-November 2019 boosted frozen sea fish output by 19.7% YoY, to 9,285 tons. Over the period under review, the rise in production of fish products was also observed with regard to other commodity items, the agency’s press service said, referring to the State Statistics…
Ukraine plans to export 54 million tons of grain in the current marketing year, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine has reported. “According to the ministry’s estimates, this year’s grain harvest amounted to about 75 million tons, 54 million tons of which will be exported to foreign…