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President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko is calling to lift the moratorium on trade in agriocultural land. This prohibition is hindering investments into agriculture, into development of the sector's infrastructure.

APK-Inform continues accepting application forms for participation in the 8th international conference “Fat-and-oil industry – 2009. Production, processing, marketing” (November 25-27, Ukraine,Truskavets, "Rixos-Prykarpattya").

The average yield to date was 2.38 tons a hectare, 0.13 tons less on the year. Wheat harvest to date was 62 million tons, compared with 65.9 million tons on the year. Barley harvest to date was 18.5 million tons compared with 24 million tons a year ago.

Corn harvest to date was 2.2 million tons, 2.3 million tons less than a year ago. Russia harvested 108.1 million tons of grain in 2008.

Source: CME Group

“The current [economic] crisis is historically unprecedented in several ways,” Diouf said in the speech at the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters in Rome. “As developing countries are more financially
and commercially integrated in the world economy, a drop in the global demand or supply and in credit availability had immediate repercussions on them,” he said.