Russian state weather forecaster Hydrometcenter said on Tuesday that conditions for Russia’s spring wheat harvest are generally good or satisfactory with only a few areas affected by a heatwave in some parts of the country, Reuters reported.
Concerns that hot and dry weather could hurt plantings in several regions of Russia...
Russian lawmakers in the Duma (lower house of parliament) have fully approved last week a government-sponsored bill on growing plants containing narcotic substances for medical purposes in the country, Vremyan.ru reported.
The draft law, which was approved on Wednesday by the Russian senate, makes legal the growth of opioid plants...
Amid escalating tensions between Russia and Georgia, authorities in Moscow are taking steps to ban Georgian wines, the business newspaper Kommersant reported on Wednesday.
Violent protests erupted in Georgia’s capital last week after a Russian lawmaker addressed the Georgian parliament in Russian from the speaker's chair. On Monday, Russia’s state consumer...
In order to help meet growing domestic meat demand, Japan will allow certain imports of fresh chicken from Russia, Nikkei reported from the G20 Summit in Osaka. The information could not immediately be confirmed with authorities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to reach an agreement...
Russia expects that Beijing will soon cancel import duties that are stopping Russian wines from penetrating the lucrative Chinese market, business ombudsman Boris Titov said at the 6th Russia-China EXPO in Harbin last week.
"Russia is proactively developing the wine industry, while China has become the world’s second market of...
A new turkey meat processing plant in Russia’s Penza Oblast was opened by agricultural holding Damate, with a planned yearly production capacity of 155,000 tons, Global Meat News reported.
"This is the biggest plant of its kind in Russia, and is likely to be the biggest one in Europe,”...
In another sign of the readiness of Chinese companies to invest into Russian agriculture, trading corporation COFCO is interested in acquiring a 25% stake in Russian grain terminal KSK in Novorossiysk, Kommersant reported citing sources close to the deal.
Тhe third largest grain terminal in the southern Chernomorsk region of...
Russia’s Primorsky Krai, a region bordering North Korea, is continuing discussions over plans to import agricultural products such as apples, the governor Oleg Kozhemyako has said last week, according to RIA Novosti.
Speaking at the recently held St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), he also said the two countries plan...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has lifted its forecast for wheat production from Russia and Ukraine by 2 million metric tons (mt) for 2019-20, prompted by favorable weather conditions, Investing.com Russia reported.
In its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, the USDA also said the...
The world’s largest crop chemical producer, Chinese-owned Syngenta will become a resident of the special economic zone (SEZ) in Russia’s Lipetsk region, Agroinvestor reports.
The company, owned by Chinese state-run enterprise ChemChina, is based in Basel, Switzerland. It will build a factory producing plant protection agents by 2021, a...
