Agrarian news
09.04.2010
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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Ukraine demands the EU to increase grain quotas
Ukraine’s Agrarian Policy Minister Mykola PRYSIAZHNIUK said that in free trade sone talks with the EU, Ukraine will insist on opening the markets for Ukrainian grain, poultry meat and eggs.
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Ukraine. EBRD may credit MHP with USD 50 million
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may extend to open joint stock company Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), a major producer of chicken, a loan of USD 50 million for financing its working capital.
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Unilever's Europe-wide palm oil covered sustainably
This is part of Unilever’s overall commitment to buy all its palm oil from certified sustainable sources by 2015. GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme, endorsed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which is designed to tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil.
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Ukraine: in February 2010, Illichevsk seaport increased vegetable oils shipment by 76.8%
In February 2010, the state enterprise Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Odessa oblast, Ukraine) increased shipment volumes of vegetable oils by 76.8% compared to the same period of 2009, declared the press-cutting service of the company.
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US to plant more corn
THE US Department of Agriculture last week released its March planting intentions report, a survey of more than 86,000 farmers.
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Ukraine lowered usage of mineral fertilizers
In 2009, Ukraine decreased volumes of application of mineral fertilizers by 16% compared to 2008, and therefore broke the positive tendency of increasing of usage of mineral fertilizers volumes, which dominated on the market beginning from 2000, declared the association Ukrainian club of agrarian business on March 31.
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