In January-September Astarta sugar revenues decreased by 10% YoY, to EUR 87 million on flat sugar price and decline in sugar sales volumes by 12%, to 240 thousand tons (including 16 thousand tons of export sales) amid unfavorable development of local and global sugar prices for the two consecutive years. The Ukrainian sugar production campaign…
Agricultural farms of Ternopil region have almost completed sugar beet harvesting. Thus, the local sugar refineries are in the midst of the sugar production season, the press service of Ternopil Regional State Administration reports. The Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Regional State Administration Volodymyr Stakhov said, that sugar refineries in Khorostkiv…
In October Ukraine imported 92,600 tons of potatoes, which exceeded the annual import volume, according to Ukrainian Horticultural Association (UHA). “The critical situation with the potato import growth in the country reached its peak in October. That month the record for imports was again updated – 92,600 tons of commercial potatoes were supplied to the…
Wines tasting was held in the Japanese city of Kagoshima Bay, the National Wine Agency of Georgia reported. The event was organized by the Georgian marketing company Red Bridge, contractor of the national wine agency. It was attended by Japanese Master of Wine Kenichi Ohashi and leading Japanese wine taster Motohiro Okoshi. According to the…
Fruit juice production accounts for 40% of total agricultural production, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Economy Minister Rufat Mammadov said at the Road Show Eurasia Forum organized by International Fruit and Vegetable Juice Association (IFU) in Baku. Mammadov added that juice production in Azerbaijan always reached high marks, because it was a traditional type of the population’s activity.…
The Belarusian government will keep tab on buckwheat prices in order to avoid dramatic rises, Belarus Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Dvornik announced after he had delivered a report on completing this year’s harvesting campaign and on fulfilling the instructions to increase and diversify the export to the head of state. “Buckwheat prices are an issue…
As of October 22 Khmelnytsk region has harvested 858,000 tons of sugar beet. According to the Agricultural Department of Khmelnytsk Regional State Administration, agrarians harvested sugar beets from 62% of the total area with the average yield of 51.1 ton/ha. (Ukrsugar/Business World Magazine)