With the world population rising, demographers are grappling with one of the most pressing issues of the century - will there be enough food for an extra two to four billion people?
Major food commodity prices fell in November, reversing about half their rise in the previous month, as the cost of internationally-traded staples, except for sugar, fell across the board.The FAO Food Price Index averaged 156.7 points in November, down 1.6 percent from its revised October average, and 18 percent below its value a year earlier.
Volume is down and volatility is up. All three wheat markets pushed into new lows last week, but Chicago was the only one that managed to get back into its range late in the week after the dollar was sharply lower. KC and Minn. bumped back into the range but couldn’t hold. After a couple of weeks with Chicago losing to KC and Minn., it appears to be reasserting it strength against those two markets.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities announced today the acquisition of a 5-hectare land plot in Odessa from LLC EuroTerminal,through its wholly owned subsidiary Louis Dreyfus Commodities Ukraine. The land plot is strategically located near the multi-commodity terminal through which LLC Brooklyn-Kiev and Louis Dreyfus Commoditiesoperate in Odessa.
The Allseeds Black Sea flag says – Going forward! The company team explain this motto as being in advance, not giving up and staying strong in the pursuit of your goals! And much is achieved since the company "reincarnated" in 2010.
The evidence of this is a grand opening of an oil-extracting plant on July 16, 2015 in Yuzhny port, Odessa - a modern enterprise designed and provided with an up-to-date equipment and built in just 18 months-involving Alexei Pavlenko, Minister of agrarian policy and Mikheil Saakashvili, Governer of Odessa region.
Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation made a rating of agricultural exporters, that have received a VAT refund from yet a newly appointed government, during Apr-Oct, 2014. The absolute leader in the amount of the received cash flows from the budget is OOO "Kernel-Trade", which received 1.2 billion UAH of VAT refund. Behind him confidently and "almost in lockstep" go companies "IMPEROVO-FUDZ" (750 million UAH) and "CREATIVE-RAZLIV" (703 million UAH).
Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation on the basis of 2013/14 MY made a rating of grain port terminals in Ukraine by export volumes. Rankings covered grains and oilseeds, as well as oilseeds meals, which are performed on the basis of the same infrastructure (terminals).The absolute leader is TIS-Grain from Yuzhny loadport, on the second place - terminal NIBULON (Nikolayev), on the third place - Olympex Coupe (Odessa).
Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation made a rating of grain exporters from Ukraine as the result of the 2013/14 marketing year. Rankings covered major crops - corn, wheat, and barley, and oilseeds - rape and soybeans, shipments of which represents the main export performed with using the same infrastructure (terminals). The absolute leader is "NIBULON".
In September-December of 2013/14 MY Ukraine exported 7.5 thsd tonnes of sunflower seed, a decrease of 9 times compared with the same period last season, declared Sergey Stoyanov, General Director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation. According to him, increasing of the competition for raw materials between oilseed processors caused reduction of the export volumes.
The AIC’s non-government professional organizations support execution of an agreement concerning the deep and comprehensive free trade area with the EU. The non-government professional organizations, such as the European Business Association, Agrarian Union of Ukraine, Association of farmers and private landowners of Ukraine, the Ukroliyaprom Association, the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business Association,