Agrarian news
13.09.2010
Turkey's state grain office announces sale intentions
Turkey's state grain office, the TMO, said on Monday that it would sell grain including 70,000 tonnes of durum wheat, 30,000 tonnes of milling wheat and 100,000 tonnes of barley.
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Germany - 12% drop in grain production
Germany's 2010 grain crop of all types is likely to fall by 12% on the year to around 43.8m tonnes, Germany's agriculture ministry said on Friday.
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Ukraine. Yanukovych travels to Brussels for trade talks with European officials
President Viktor Yanukovych on Sept. 13 is scheduled to meet in Brussels with meet President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss a forthcoming EU-Ukraine summit. The visit comes amid media reports of an increasingly repressive climate in the country under the pro-Russian leader.
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Premier: Ukraine will not introduce grain export quotas
The Ukrainian government does not plan to introduce any grain export restrictions, Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov said in Simferopol on Friday.
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Bulgaria doubled its grain export against the background of the embargo put by Russia and Ukraine
The volume of Bulgarian wheat and barley export doubled this year after Russia and Ukraine had banned grain exports, said Radoslav Hristov, president of Bulgaria’s Grain Producers Association.
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Kazakhstan to supply 1.5 mln tonnes of grains to Russia
During the current season Kazakhstan is able to supply nearly 1.5 mln tonnes of milling grains to the Russian Federation, announced Romin Madinov, the Chairman of the Agrarian Committee of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, on September 6.
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Ukraine: Cabinet of Ministers plans to refuse from VAT repayment to grain traders
In the project of the Tax Codex, the Government of Ukraine offers to lay on zero imposition for Value Added Tax (VAT) for operations with grains, technical crops and timber, stimulating processing of the commodities in Ukraine, announced Nikolay Azarov, the Prime-Minister of Ukraine.
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UK advisor says cut biofuels target unless sustainability improves
Government climate advisors have suggested Britain should cut its target for biofuels use by 2020 to ensure that tropical forests are not replaced by crops.
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Ukraine. Finance Ministry: State budget deficit in 2011 expected at 3% of GDP
The deficit of Ukraine's state budget for 2011 is expected at 3% of GDP (UAH 37.6 billion, UAH 7.91 / USD 1), according to the main principles of the draft state budget for 2011.
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Russia aims to boost ag exports through bioenergy
In Russia, with international reports of droughts and grain shortages, Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexander Petrikov this week stated at an agricultural form, “Russia could become a supplier of oilseeds, oil, biodiesel and ethanol as alternative fuel, cattle and goat meat, game and aquaculture products to the European union in the future.”
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