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...
Russia has extended the zero export duty on wheat until July 1, 2019, the government said on its website Friday, according to Regnum.
The country canceled the export duty on grain on September 26, 2016, to be effective until July 1, 2018. But in view of high stocks and in order...
Cherkizovo, Russia’s biggest meat producer, said on Tuesday that it plans to buy regional farming company Altayski Broiler from its competitor Prioskolye, Reuters reported.
The final price would be established after due diligence process is completed, the company said.
“The inclusion of such a big regional producer in the Cherkizovo structure... would...
Russia’s fat-and-oil industry may boost product exports by $5.5 billion against 2017, to $8.6 billion, the country’s Agriculture Ministry said following a meeting with industry representatives, UkrAgroConsult reported.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the companies Sodruzhestvo, Yug Rusi, Blago, Rusagro, Aston, Cargill, Efko, Bunge, Oryolmaslo, as well as the...
Thousands of tons of Russian grain will be delivered to Syria next year, the head of the Crimean region Yuri Gotsanyuk has said, according to News.ru.
Exports from the Black Sea peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, to the war-ravaged country began two years ago.
The first batch of...
Russia's largest meat producer, Cherkizovo Group, has completed the purchase of Altaysky Broiler from the Prioskolye holding company, Agroinvestor reports.
The deal is worth $67 million, and the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service already approved the transaction, the report says. Cherkizovo announced its intent to acquire the Altay-based poultry producer during the summer.
Altaysky Broiler is...
Azerbaijan won’t ban meat imports from Russia, since it doesn’t import poultry meat and products from the Russian region of Kostroma, where bird flu was detected, AzerNews informs.
Yolchu Khanvali, head of the press service of the State Veterinary Control Service under the Agriculture Ministry of Azerbaijan told Trend last...
An artificial intelligence (AI) system will be installed in one the meat-processing facilities of Russian agricultural holding Cherkizovo, in a move which the company hopes will optimize the production process and cut production costs, Unipack.ru reported.
Cherkizovo said the installation of the Morigan.Lean system is a pilot project before...
Fertilizer giant EuroChem Group has announced the start of production at the country’s first Urea Ammonium Sulfate (UAS) production facility, Chemical Engineering reports.
The new facility, built in partnership with leading urea technology developer, Dutch-based Stamicarbon, is projected to reach a final production capacity of 600 tons/day. It officially...
The first exhibition of Cuban products in Moscow, held last week, has resulted in a deal between fruit exporter Citricos Caribe and Russian company Mashpriborintorg to export tropical products from to Russia, Fresh Plaza reports.
The exhibition was attended by a delegation of Cuban businessmen from the agricultural sector who...
