Over 400,000 people holding more than 1.5 million hectares of unfarmed lands are likely to be sanctioned as of spring, Agriculture Ministry state secretary Adrian Radulescu told MEDIAFAX Tuesday.
The UkrSugar national association of Ukrainian sugar makers predicts that sugar beet will be sown on 450,000 hectares in 2010. The regions posted sowing 380,000 hectares, but „we believe the acreage will increase to 450,000 hectares,” the association reported. In the opinion of experts of the association, the acreage will expand due to the sharp […]
Temperatures plunging to -50°C have killed 1.7 million head of livestock in Mongolia, threatening the livelihoods of 21 000 herder families and putting them at risk of food insecurity, FAO warned today. An FAO rapid needs assessment on the impact of the disaster has found that urgent external assistance of some $6 million is needed […]
An industry estimate that Russia’s grain crop will „exceed 90m tonnes” this year may prove conservative, to judge by the growth in winter plantings, a leading analyst has said.
Growth in consumption will revive prices of corn and soybeans in Chicago, and drive wheat higher on both sides of the Atlantic, Commerzbank has said, at the end of a gloomy month for crop markets.
The promise by Ukraine’s prime minister to create a bank offering low-interest loans to farmers may turn out to be „science fuction”, UkrAgroConsult has said in a report adding 1m tonnes to its grains forecast.
The Mayor of Republic of Moldova Capital, Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca, stated on Sunday, in Iasi (east), where he took part in the events occasioned by the anniversary of 151 years since the Romanian Principalities Union, that Romania was and remains a loyal advocate of the Republic of Moldova in its process of accession to the […]
Prices of basic foods will increase 15-20% in the second half of 2009, even as prices have increased around 18% compared to October, said Ştefan Niculae, chairman of the Agrostar Federation, according to Bursa. The price hikes expected to happen in June-July are caused by the elimination of state subsidies for producers, which are now […]
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.
