05.07.2012
Quantity of nitrates in early watermelons and melons do not exceed standards
The first melon products appeared this year on the wholesale markets almost a month earlier than usual. Last season watermelons and melons were considered early if they appeared on July12-15th. The first products in season 2012 on the markets of Kyiv could be already bought on 15th of June and in the south of Ukraine they were available even earlier. According to experts of the Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club" (UCAB), the amount of nitrates is normal in the early products that are sold on wholesale markets.
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Kernel Group will raise a $210 Ml loan
Agro Holding Kernel Group, which is controlled by Kernel Holding S.A. (Luxembourg), has arranged a USD 210 Ml loan from a consortium of European banks, Kernel Holding reports.
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Mykola Azarov: Bread prices will be stable
Bread prices will be stable - the Government takes no actions that bring to "shock" in the domestic grain market. It is provided by the created grain reserves, large carry-overs and crop forecast for current year at a level of 43 million tons of grain.
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Ukraine can have 12% share on the world grain market
Meeting with the members of the agricultural workers associations, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said that in the next 10 years, Ukraine’s agro-industrial complex can double its share on the world grain market, ForUm correspondent reports.
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Ukraine: Government not to limit grain exports in the new MY
The Government of Ukraine does not plan to impose limitations on grain exports in the new MY, declared Nikolai Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine, on July 3. According to him, the Government expects for a reasonably good grain harvest, and does not plan to impose any limitations like in 2010.
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EBRD to buy a share in a British sugar producer in Ukraine
The EBRD intends to become a shareholder of the British company ED&F Man in Ukraine. It is planning to invest USD 15.9 Ml in the acquisition of a minority stake and to buy and install sugar beet processing equipment.
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IGC again cuts global wheat crop outlook, raises corn
The International Grains Council Monday downwardly revised its estimate for world wheat output in 2012-13, by 6 million metric tons to 665 million tons, due to unfavorable conditions in some countries including a further deterioration in crop expectations in Russia.
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Mykola Azarov promises that government would not introduce restrictions on grain exports
The Government does not intend to introduce any restrictions on grain exports in the current marketing year. Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov assured the farmers on this at a meeting with representatives of NGOs working in agriculture of Ukraine on July 3, 2012.
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As of July 3, Ukraine produced over 3 mln tonnes of grains
As of July 3, 2012, Ukraine harvested early grains and leguminous crops throughout the areas of 1.74 mln ha (17% of the forecast), and produced 3.04 mln tonnes of grains (on the same date in 2011 agrarians produced 1.82 mln tonnes) with the average yield of 17.6 c/ha (in 2011 - 28.1 c/ha).
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Agricultural exchange to begin trading on spot market
KYIV, July 3 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine's Agrarian Commodity Exchange intends to hold test trading on the spot market this summer, which may completely change the situation on the market.
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