More than 270 Ukrainian companies have the right to export products to the European Union markets. Head of Ukraine’s State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection, Volodymyr Lapa said this at IX National Conference with International Participation “Diary Business -2016”.
The battle between farmers and Ukrzaliznytsia is going on. "Record Harvest Spells More Trouble for Conflict-Hit Ukraine" is a title of new Bloomberg's article.
According to Bloomberg, as if Ukraine’s battered economy and political conflicts with Russia weren’t dismaying enough, a logjam on the country’s Soviet-era rail network is preventing some farmers from shipping bumper harvests in the breadbasket of Eastern Europe.
Grain harvest in Ukraine in 2016 would total 64 million tonnes, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kytoviy has said.
The Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine suggests introducing the post of agricultural attachés, who will deal with the establishment of trade representations in the regions, which are of major interest for our exporters.
Nibulon agricultural company in the framework of its strategic plans in the field of inland waterway transport intends to build five new river transshipment terminals, continue building inland and mixed navigation transport ships.
By November 08, winter crops had been sown at 6844 Th ha, which was 93% of the forecasted area - 7374 Th ha, informsUkrAgroConsult.
As of October 25, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 52.265 mln tonnes of grains throughout the areas of 12.281 mln ha, or 86% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.26 t/ha, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
In January-September of 2016, the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 0.9% compared with the same period in 2015 at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, announced the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on October 13.
As of October 4, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 45.08 mln tonnes of grains throughout the areas of 11.149 mln ha, or 78% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.04 t/ha, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 43.5 mln tonnes.
During several recent seasons, the supplies to North Korea provided the major share of the growth of Ukrainian flour exports, but in 2015/16 MY the geography of foreign markets for the product markets significantly expanded, declared the Adviser to the Chairman at Agrarian Fund PJSC, Sergei Sakirkin during his report at the second international conference "Grain Processors Forum: Market & Technologies - 2016" on September 22.