Category: Food

Speaking at the agronomical All-Russian meeting, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, said that Russia topped the world list of the largest producers of sugar beet, ahead of countries such as France, the United States and Germany. According to the minister, in 2016 the summer harvest of sugar beet amounted to more than 50 million tons.

Since yesterday evening, temperatures began to fall in Russia and Ukraine, and weather forecasters predict several cold nights before the end of this week. In central Ukraine, according to forecasts, the temperature dropped to -11C yesterday and will fall to -20C tomorrow and over the next few nights. A similar situation has developed over the central part of Russia around Kursk, Voronezh and Lipetsk, where it was -24C last night with a possible cooling down to -26C tomorrow.

State support for small and medium-sized farmers will allow Ukraine to increase agricultural production by almost 10 million tons per year, said Taras Kutovoy, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food. According to him, the Ministry declares that there are agricultural small and medium agricultural enterprises that should dominate the structure of state support.

The Russian government continues to make loud statements about supporting agriculture - this time the first deputy minister of agriculture stressed the need to develop seed production. At a recent meeting of scientists and seed breeders, the deputy minister said that they must provide farmers with high-quality Russian seed supplies and the ratio of seeds in the market must be changed in order to compete with foreign selection.

In the period from January 31 to February 6, 2017, the seaports of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation (Novorossiysk, Yeisk, Temryuk, Tuapse, Caucasus and Taman) shipped 14 ships with grain and its by-products for export in the amount of more than 280 thousand tons. including more than 202 thousand tons of wheat, reports the territorial department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of A

Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine submitted 11 bills to the Verkhovna Rada, which may be adopted as a law. Of the 11 bills submitted, seven have already been reviewed by Verkhovna Rada committees and recommended for adoption. The first bill is the demonopolization of the alcohol industry, in particular, this means the privatization of state-owned alcohol producer Ukrspirt, which produces vodka and industrial alcohol, and this is a fairly profitable business in Ukraine.

The export of Ukrainian food products to the United Arab Emirates in recent years shows a negative trend and at the moment it accounts for less than 1% of export earnings. This may be due to difficulties with the "Halal" certification, which began to be felt last year.

According to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovogo, today the European Commission is discussing the possibility of reducing the quotas for duty-free supplies of corn from Ukraine. It should be noted that since the beginning of 2017, Ukraine has already filled quotas for the supply of corn in the EU at the level of 400 thousand tons.

Speaking at a meeting on import regulations for plant protection products, Jambulat Khatuov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia, said that the department would draw up new rules for pesticides imported into the Russian Federation and EurAsEC. He also explained that stricter rules would help limit the flow of pesticides to the Russian market.

According to the press service of the company, in February 2017, the company Allseeds Black Sea will begin implementation of its logistics project for transshipping oilseeds using its production equipment in the South Port, which is located in Odessa. "There will be three phases of the project.

Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, speaking at the VIII Congress of the National Union of Milk Producers, said that, despite the difficulties, the dairy industry showed a positive trend last year. Across the country, milk production remained at the level of 2015 and amounted to 30.8 million tons.

The United States is ready to negotiate on the supply of Ukrainian organic wheat in the domestic market, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy. According to him, the United States has very much regulated laws in the field of food safety due to which it is quite difficult to introduce new products to the market.

As Vladimir Volik, Director of the Department for the Regulation of Agricultural Markets in the Ministry, said yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture sees no reason for resuming government procurement interventions for the 2016 grain harvest. According to him, there is no tendency to reduce prices, and export has shown good results.

The European Commission made a decision to establish reciprocal regional restrictions between Ukraine and the European Union when it comes to trading in poultry land, which recorded outbreaks of acute viral disease - avian influenza. You can learn more about this decision in the Official Journal of the EU. Recall that the import of Ukrainian poultry and eggs was stopped by the EU in December last year, but then, on January 30, exports resumed, affecting products from territories where the flu wa

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to exclude the public joint-stock company of the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine from the list of state property privatized in 2017. PJSC, known as the SCRPU, was established in 2010 and, according to their website, is the most powerful state-owned vertically integrated company in the agricultural sector and is a leader in the storage, processing, transportation and export of grain.

The stevedoring company Novotekh-Terminal LTD has begun construction of a new grain terminal, with a design capacity of almost 3 million tons per year in the Odessa Commercial Sea Port, said the press service of Pivdenny Bank, which acts as a financial partner of the project. In particular, the terminal will also include a port elevator with a simultaneous capacity of 110 thousand tons.

The development of the organic sector of Ukraine made a positive step forward yesterday, when the Committee on Agrarian Policy recommended the Verkhovna Rada to support the draft law in the first reading. It is not yet clear whether currently the adoption of the draft law is merely a formality, or it can still be rejected by the Verkhovna Rada.

The Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine today will meet with representatives of the World Bank to discuss the current state of the forest industry in Ukraine and the need for comprehensive reforms. The Minister noted that the reform of the forest sector is one of the priorities of the ministry’s activities, but this is controversial and difficult from the point of view of social tensions, with a lot of opinions, divergences and misinterpretations.

According to the latest data from the Confectionery Market Research Center (CICR), the value of cocoa beans in the world has hit a four-year low. According to a press release from the Center: "The futures prices on the New York Stock Exchange at the beginning of this week fell to $ 2,052 per tonne, reaching the lowest level since 2013.

A meeting was held today at which the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy, together with the management of the state enterprise Ukrspirt, discussed the calculation of the cost of alcohol of a state enterprise in order to reduce it at the request of market participants. "Considering the planned increase in excise, and an additional increase in the cost of other pricing elements, I consider it advisable to recommend that the additional price be canceled, as this could adv