According to the official statistics figures, in 2015/16 MY (September-August) Ukraine exported nearly 42 thsd tonnes of flaxseed, an increase of 65% compared with 2014/15 MY (25.4 thsd tonnes), which became the maximum index for nine recent seasons.
Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.8 mln tonnes of grains throughout the areas of 10 mln ha, or 70% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.9 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 37.6 mln tonnes.
In the current year Ukraine has rather optimistic forecast for buckwheat production, declared the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Taras Kutovyi on September 8. To date, agrarians already harvested buckwheat throughout 61% of the planted areas. The forecast of buckwheat production totals 174 thsd tonnes, the Minister said.
he Ministry of Agriculture of Russia plans to double soybean production volumes in the country, declared the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Alexander Tkachev on August 31. According to him, increasing of the domestic production of the oilseed would break the dependence on imports of low-quality soybeans, including genetically modified oilseed, as well as allow increasing the export potential.
Ukrainian flour exports will grow annually by 30-35%, forecasted the Chairman of the Board of Directors the agricultural holding KSG Agro, Sergiy Kasianov on August 23. According to him, high demand for wheat flour from foreign buyers forms the growth of the export volumes. Milling enterpises of KSG Agro do not have any alternative to find access to export markets, as the domestic consumption of flour continues gradually reducing. In fact, the exports of flour helps the industry to survive, said S.Kasianov.
According to the State Statistics Service, in 2015 Ukraine produced slightly more than 347 thsd tonnes of groats, a decrease of 1% compared with the indicator of 2014 (350 thsd tonnes). At the same time, some segments demonstrated significant decline of production volumes. Thus, in 2015 the production volumes of buckwheat groats decreased by 25%, and totaled 68.3 thsd tonnes, against 90.9 thsd tonnes in the previous year.
The ratio between milling wheat and feed wheat in the grain production structure for the harvest-2016 in Ukraine is estimated at 55% and 45% respectively, which exceeds the similar indices of 2015, declared the State Enterprise State Research and Information Center for Monitoring International Commodity Markets (Derzhzovnishinform).
In January-June of 2016, the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine decreased by 0.3% compared with the same period in 2015 at the expense of fall of production of animal husbandry commodities, announced the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on July 15.
On July 12, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine signed the Memorandum of understanding with market participants - companies-exporters of grains for 2016/17 MY, declared the press-service of the Ministry.
July 8th, 2016 Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation carried out the roundtable within the framework of All-Ukrainian project contest Agro Challenge. The event was devoted to IT innovations in agricultural sector. The representatives of public and international organizations (UAC, UCC, FAO, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council), agricultural holdings (Ukrlandfarming, Astrata Ukraine, Kernel Trade) and IT companies (Intel, Ciklum, UA Technology, Skyline Software, USP),