Thursday, June 4, 2026
Already massive plans by the Russian government to invest in a major project to make the domestic feed industry more effective and efficient are likely to cost even more, All About Feed reports. In early November, the Russian Agricultural Ministry presented a new feed and feed additives development program, in...
The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) has urged local exporters to increase exports of agricultural products to Russia, where food is in demand after the country imposed a ban on food imports from the West, Pakistani website The News reports. Russia keeps extending the ban, which prohibits import of...
The ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China has left the Asian country with a large void in soybean imports, which Beijing wants to fill by importing more soybeans from Russia, The Global Times reports. Imports from the U.S. now face tariffs of 25 percent and as a result,...
Russia’s agricultural boom of 2017 was overestimated by as much as 30 percent for certain crops, а report by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) has revealed. А weaker ruble and higher oil prices helped agriculture to overtake arms sales in 2017 to become Russia’s second-biggest export sector...
Russian agricultural businesses boosted grain shipments in late August in anticipation of an increase in export taxes. Grain shipments have almost quadrupled to 1.4 million tons per week, according to Kommersant. According to Igor Pavensky, director of the Rusagrotrans Analytical Center, exports are increasing due to rising demand for Russian...
Wine deliveries from Greece to Russia this year will be record-breaking, Georgy Kanakis, a member of the Peloponnese Union of Winemakers, told RIA Novosti. When customers are buying wine in Russian supermarkets, they need to take note of a few rules that could help them choose a quality product, Roskachestvo...
Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture has proposed an extension to the country’s zero duty policy on wheat export, TASS news agency reports. According to a draft resolution of the Russian government, the ministry noted that the expected crop in Russia in 2019 to the amount of 118 million tons will fully...
A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia's Stavropol region, known for its agriculture, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The white farmers, descendants of Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are known as Afrikaners, and they have been facing violent attacks and death threats at home. According to the delegation, up...
Chinese farmers are already expressing interest in working on about one million hectares of arable land in Russia’s Far East region, which the Russian government has made available, an official in Moscow has said. According to the South China Morning Post, Valery Dubrovskiy, director of investment for the Far East...
Russia's winter grain crop is in unusually good shape with only 5.7% classed as in bad condition, Roman Nekrasov, an agriculture ministry official said Thursday, according to Interfax. The Russian winter has been unusually warm and dry this year, with Muscovites complaining there has been no snow at all. Russian weather...