An area of fertile crop land nearly the size of Israel is lying uncultivated in Kazakhstan, US officials have said, after a field trip which heard that one John Deere combine is four times as efficient as Russian ones.
US corn and soybean plantings will swallow up less than half of the land freed up by the collapse in winter wheat sowings and by the lapse of conservation programmes, Informa Economics has said.
Freight transshipment through the Port of Kavkaz increased by 15.5% as compared with 2008 – up 8.1 million tons in 2009, IAA PortNews reports citing the Port Authority. The amount of raid handling of export sulfur grew by 45.28 percent, to 1.890.000 tons, of fuel oil as much as 1.6 times, to 1.290.000 tons, of […]
Grain shipments from the Black Sea to Asia look set to fall, slashed by a surge in ocean freight rates fed by China’s hunger for vessels to ferry home its global commodity purchases and fears of predatory attacks by Somali pirates. The cost of shipping grain in bulk from the Black Sea region – a […]
Tractor production in Ukraine fell by 77.2% in 2009 year-over-year, to 1,443 vehicles. According to the State Statistics Committee, the production of seeders shrank by 79.5% to 1,582 units, while the production of disk harrows fell by 83.2% to 926 units. Tractor production fell by 20% in 2008 year-over-year, to 6,339 vehicles.
Firmele din industria alimentară cer guvernului ca taxa pe valoarea adăugată să se plătească doar la sfârşitul ciclului, în timp ce între furnizor şi firma cumpărătoare să se practice taxarea inversă. Teoretic, alimentele ar trebui să se ieftinească. De anul acesta, lovitura este dată firmelor aflate în insolvenţă, pentru că nu mai pot practica taxarea […]
Romanian exports of agri-food products exports grew by about 5% in the first ten months of 2009, to 1.84 billion euros, compared to 1.75 billion euros in the same period of 2008, while imports decreased by 18%, from 3.41 billion euros to 2.8 billion euros. Thus, according to data supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture […]
Creşterea preţurilor alimentare şi energetice sunt cele două rele economice de care participanţii la Forumul Economic Internaţional, ale cărui întâlniri se vor desfăşura, ca în fiecare an la Davos, se tem cel mai mult pentru 2010. Probabilitatea ambelor este în creştere, potrivit raportului Global Risks 2010 iar severitatea lor este la un nivel ridicat.
Omul de afaceri Petru Ciurtin, care detine 31,74% din actiunile producatorului de lactate Albalact, il cheama in judecata pe Leontin Petre-Gavril, pentru a clarifica situatia legata de actionariatul companiei. Leontin Petre-Gavril revendica jumatate din titlurile familiei Ciurtin pe fondul unui contract de asociere incheiat in 1999, scrie Ziarul Financiar.
Dairy Industry of Xanthi „Rodopi” a transferat pachetul de 27,3% din capitalul firmei Prodlacta Brasov (PRAE) catre Olympus Dairy Industry SA Brasov, ambele firme fiind controlate de producatorul de lactate grec Tyras. Valoarea tranzactiei a fost de 12,1 mil. lei (2,9 mil. euro).
