UAC News

ASTARTA’s farm units have successfully finished the sowing of spring crops. The total crop area sown in spring is about 170 thousand hectares, including 41 thousand hectares of sugar beet, 41 thousand hectares of sunflower, 67 thousand hectares of corn, 20 thousand hectares of soybean, and the rest under other crops (barley, oats, buckwheat, etc.).

Along with growth in flour exports, wheat bran shipments from Ukraine keep expanding too, despite a decline in the commodity’s production in the country.

The Ukraine parliament, Verkhovna Rada, has this week passed Bill No. 3871 at first reading to amend various Ukraine laws in a move that will ban the use of palm oil for food production.

Hot, dry weather persisted on May 1-10. It was only at the end of this period that precipitation of various intensities occurred almost all over the country. The average daily air temperature was 1.5-8.40С above normal. Precipitation in the form of rain, locally downpours with hail, occurred in the northern, western, and central regions. It was also seen in spots in the south and east, but its rates were insignificant there (0.8-4 mm).