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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.

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.

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.

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),