15.06.2012

BASF addresses role of innovation for agricultural sustainability

Limburgerhof, Germany and Chicago, USA – June 5, 2012 – BASF today presented its crop protection and plant biotechnology pipelines and outlined plans to globalize agricultural research activities as part of its “We create chemistry” strategy.

13.06.2012

For the first time in 11 years in Ukraine recorded an increase herd of cattle

Meat production (live weight) in Ukraine in January-May 2012 decreased by 0.9% a year to 1.226 MMT.

13.06.2012

Forecasts USDA and the average market expectations of global ending stocks in 2011/12&2012/13, mln t:

Daily Trading of Ukrainian Agricultural Companies' Shares on International Stock Markets (12.06.2012, closing)

Warsaw Stock Exchange( WSE ) 2012-06-12

13.06.2012

European vegetable oil PM prices - June 12

Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT:

12.06.2012

The Agrarian Fund will receive the financial resources to purchase

The Government continues to take steps to ensure stable operation of the agricultural market, to guarantee food security appropriately to guarantee price stability.

12.06.2012

Prysiazhniuk: Ukraine set to start grain futures at CME by year end

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine is planning to start corn, barley and sunoil futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) by the end of the year, Agrarian and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said Thursday at a meeting with domestic and foreign investors in Kyiv, UKRINFORM reported citing Latifundist.com.

12.06.2012

60-70% of fish imported - Prysiazhniuk

Ukraine is dependent on fish imports, which make about 60-70%, Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Mykola Prysiazhniuk told a board meeting of the National Agency for Fisheries on Friday, according to a correspondent of UKRINFORM.

12.06.2012

Expert: Wheat harvest in Ukraine expected at 13-14 million tons

Wheat harvest in Ukraine is expected at a low level - 13-14 million tons - because of the loss of winter crops, Director General of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club Volodymyr Lapa has said, while commenting on the situation with winter crops, the club has told UKRINFORM.

12.06.2012

Nibulon opposes law on seaports

Mykolaiv-based Nibulon agricultural company LLC, one of the largest Ukrainian producers and exports of grain and oilseed crops, has said it does not support a law on seaports passed by the Ukrainian parliament on May 17, 2012.