Today the 15th Anniversary International Conference "Black Sea Grain: Moving Up the Value Chain" have started its work in Kyiv. This leading conference of the grain sector of Ukraine and the Black Sea region, organized by the UkrAgroConsult, has gathered more than 700 delegates from 50 countries of the world.
Ukrainian farmers have sown 1.2 million hectares of early spring grains, or 51% of total area, according to an April 16 report from Reuters.
No secret that Ukrainian rivers have a great potential in the cargo transportation sector. The volume of basic cargo, which is generated in regions close to the Dnieper River, allows estimating possible cargo base at 60 MMT per year. Whereas now the total cargo traffic of inland waterway transport is only 8 MMT.
Ukraine as of Friday, April 6, had sowed 138,000 hectares with grain and leguminous crops, or 6% of the forecast, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said.
A large-scale audit of products sold in Ukraine, conducted by the state service of Ukraine on food safety and consumer protection, said the head of Department Vladimir Lapa, misleading April 5, the "Ukrainian news".
According to the State Statistics Committee, cereal and pulse stocks in Ukraine totaled 19.03 MMT as of March 1, 2018, i.e. 0.9% less than on the same date last year (19.21 MMT).
Groats production in Ukraine rose in January-February 2018 versus the same time period in 2017.