12.04.2010
Ukraine: 85% of winter grain sowings show good and satisfactory condition
According to preliminary data of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, 85% of winter grains sowings in Ukraine show good and satisfactory condition from the general winter sowing areas of 8.6 mln ha, remaining 15% of the sowing areas are estimated as week and thinned, included nearly 3% of perished winter grain sowing areas, informed Nikolay Prysyashnuk, the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, on April 9.
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Ukraine: agrarians purchased 88% of required mineral fertilizers
As of April 7, 2010, agricultural commodity producers purchased 696.1 thsd tonnes of mineral fertilizers, or 88% of the required volumes, and used 296 thsd tonnes of the purchased volumes. The current level of provision with mineral fertilizers exceeded the same period of the previous year by 5%, or 54 thsd tonnes, declared Nikolay Prysyashnuk, the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, on April 9.
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Ukraine to double grain production volumes
Ukraine has possibilities to increase grain harvest by two times, and also increase qualitative parameters of grains, declared Sergey Melnik, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, on April 9.
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Ukraine. Extra UAH 100 million provided for support to agro-industrial complexnsation of interest rates on the credits drawn by agro-indus
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine extended from the stabilization fund UAH 100 million (1 USD - 7.92 UAH) for the competrial companies, which was not provided in 2009.
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Ukraine. Summer crops sown on 1.047,8 million hectares
By the beginning of April, Ukraine's agricultural enterprises of all categories sowed summer crops on 1.047,8 million hectares, including reseeding over perished winter crops and permanent grasses, which is 97.3% of the like 2009 period, the State Statistics Committee reported.
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Ukraine to resow 240-250 thsd ha of winter rapeseed
Scientists forecast resowing of nearly 240-250 thsd ha of winter rapeseed sowings with other agricultural crops, declared Viktor Sytnik, the deputy president of the National academy of agrarian sciences, on March 26.
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Indian grain quality shame
AN INDIAN ban on a modest 1250-tonne consignment of containerised Australian export wheat has hit a raw nerve with farmers who are increasingly worried about sliding grain quality standards.
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US wheat export declines 35% during Mar.26- Apr 1: USDA
As per the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), export of wheat US during the period Mar 26- Apr 1, 2010 stood at 450,300 MT were down 35% from the previous week and 7% from the prior 4-week average.
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Ukraine: maize, sunflower and soybean to become the most popular crops of the sowing campaign-2010
Maize, sunflower and soybean will become the most profitable and prospective crops of the sowing campaign-2010 in Ukraine, declared Yaroslaw Udovenko, the analyst of the investment group Sokrat.
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Ukraine seaports’ throughput up 3% in Q1, to 26.66m tons
Cargo turnover at commercial seaports of Ukraine in January-March 2010 rose by 3.3% from the same period a year earlier, to 26.66 million tons, Ukrrudprom reports citing the Sea and River Transport Authority.
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