During January-September of 2009, enterprises of the chemical industry of Ukraine decreased production volumes of nitrogenous and mineral fertilizers by 24.4% compared to the same period of the previous year – to 1.6 mln tonnes, declared the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine.
The world autumn demand in fertilizers stimulates Ukrainian producers to increase capacity utilization and provides hope for successfully completion of the season. At the same time, prices for chemical industry production continue rising.
According to the world experts, the volumes of the world trading with grains on the world market will possibly lower by 11% due to the essential surplus of supply over demand. High harvest of grains in the countries of the North Africa and the Middle East also assisted to the development of the situation. However, the world market still expects for the results of wheat harvests in the countries of the Southern Hemisphere, including grain quality in Australia, reduction of grain production volumes in Argentina, due to the decrease of sowing areas and yield indices. And what will Kazakhstan initiate in order to promote own grains on the world market?
Ukraine harvested 44 million metric tons of grain in the year to Oct. 29 on 14.8 million hectares, or 95% of the total area to be harvested, with an average yield of three tons a hectare, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
The International Grains Council Thursday revised world grain production for 2009-10 to 1.76 billion metric tons, up slightly from the September estimate of 1.75 billion tons, mainly due to the larger-than-expected U.S. corn crop.
According to the data of APK-Inform Agency, in September 2009, the European Union remained one of the largest importers of oilseeds and by-products from Ukraine.
European competition watchdogs Wednesday gave French President Nicolas Sarkozy a ticking-off for announcing a flood of money for its farmers without first informing Brussels.
Ending a year of contraction, the United States economy grew in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. But even if a recovery is technically in the offing, job seekers likely will not begin to feel the benefits for months to come. The nation’s gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the three months ending in September, a significant spike from a somewhat shrunken base. The economy had contracted at annual rates of 0.7 percent and 6.4 percent in the second and first quarters of this year, respectively.
As of October 23 of the current year, Ukraine sowed winter grains throughout 7.6 mln ha (97% from the forecasted areas), which nearly corresponds to the previous year level, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.
As of October 23, Ukraine harvested 43.3 mln tonnes of grains, a decrease of 12.3% compared to the same date of previous year, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy. According to information of the Ministry, agrarians harvested grains throughout 14.6 mln ha, or 96% from the forecast.