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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.

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.

 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.

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.