Ukraine: Viktor Slauta suggests raising prices for export grain

Ukraine’s Vice-Premier Viktor Slauta said this at a briefing for the Odesa media. According to him, a major task of the Ukrainian agro-industrial sector is ensuring a high price for export grain. However, as he noted, certain fears arise about this because ample grain stocks from the previous harvests remain in the world market.

Ukraine. Yield slightly exceeds previous year rate

For today, the yield of grain crops, barley and wheat, harvesting of which has already started in Ukraine, slightly exceeds the previous year level, Vice Premier on Agrarian Policy Viktor Slauta has said.

WTO against US poultry ban

China appears to have «notched up a victory» in a dispute against the US over the latter’s ban on poultry imports, according to an interim report by the World Trade Organization (WTO). «We think the US will not try to impose a similar ban in the next fiscal year, since it would be regarded as open defiance of the latest WTO ruling,» a Ministry of Commerce official, who declined to be named, reports state, adding that Beijing had received the WTO report.

Agrarians Jan-May milk/dairy products sales up 1.5%, to 791,250 MT

IFC Invests in Meat Producer Globino to Help Generate Jobs in Ukraine

Kiev, Ukraine, June 22, 2010—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will invest in meat producer Globino to help increase production capacity, modernize equipment, and create about 600 jobs in central Ukraine’s Poltava Region.

Share of 10 largest agrarian companies in grain production has reached 13.5 %

In total volume of grain produced by agricultural enterprises in 2009 the share of 10 largest companies has reached 13.5 %. It was announced by Ukrainian agribusiness club (UCAB).

Ukraine: Crimea harvested 1.5 thsd ha of winter barley

As of June 15, 2010, agrarians of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) harvested winter barley throughout 1.5 thsd ha and produced 3.7 thsd tonnes of the grain, announced Nikolay Polyushkin, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine forecasts the present year harvest at the level of 2009 results

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine forecasts the present year grain production reaching the previous year harvest results, declared Eugene Lavrov, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, on June 16.

Ukraine: Crimea increased spring crops sowing areas by 5.3%

As of June 1, 2010, agricultural enterprises of all categories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea sowed spring crops (taking into account resowing of perished winter crops) throughout the areas of 249 thsd ha, an increase of 5.3% (12.5 thsd ha) compared to the same date of the previous year, declared the Main department of statistics of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

Holding back the sand

FAO marks World Day to Combat Desertification today with the publication of a manual that shows how a project in Mauritania successfully fixed dunes and stopped sand encroachment. It will serve as a useful blueprint for similar projects in Africa. Sand encroachment is what happens when grains of sand are carried by winds and collect in dunes on the coast, along watercourses and on cultivated or uncultivated land.