The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has detected dangerous pests in 370 tons of mandarins imported from Turkey in 16 parties, the watchdog said, according to Rusturkey.com.
The agency banned the entry of the products and returned them to Turkey.
According to the statement issued by Rosselhoznadzor, during...
Iraq said late on Monday it wanted to allow wheat imports from Russia in its state buying tenders, Agriculture.com reports.
Trade Minister Mohammed Hashim Al-Aani said he would send representatives to Russia to study its wheat quality and its suitability for use in Iraq’s massive food rationing program.
“The ministry will send...
Russia is entering the third decade in which the country is a net importer of food, despite growing into the world’s biggest exporter of grain, bneIntellinews writes.
During the late Soviet period, Russia was a large importer of grain, soybeans and soybean meal, but managed to move up on the...
As estimates for the record Russian wheat harvest keep growing, so does the outlook for exports - the world’s top exporter is now expected to sell 36.6 million metric tons overseas, according to consultants SovEcon and the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies, or IKAR. The U.S. was the last...
The National Union of Milk Producers ("Soyuzmoloko") notes a serious slowdown in the growth of commercial milk production, Russian media informed.
"Over the past years, we have grown by an average of 1 million tons, or 4-5% per year. But this year we expect an increase under a good development...
The United Grain Company (UGC) made a contract for supply of 120,000 tonnes of wheat to Egypt, the company says on Friday, TASS reported.
"The contract for supply of two lots of 60,000 tonnes of wheat of Romanian origin each at a price of $281.49 ob FOB Constanta basis was...
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...
The production of frozen potatoes in Russia between 2014 and 2018 increased from 4.7 thousand tons to 42.4 thousand tons, RBC wrote recently citing an analysis by BusinesStat.
Analysts noted that up until 2018, frozen potatoes intended for fast food chains in the country were mostly imported.
According to this study,...
One of the biggest players in Russia’s meat industry, Cherkizovo Group, has said it wants to expand to the Voronezh region, Just Food reported.
The company, which this month also revealed plans to invest $115 million in its meat processing capability in the Moscow region, has now announced that over the next...
The Russian wheat market continued experiencing an upturn in prices last week, UkrAgroConsult reports.
Export prices for Russian milling wheat closed the week up another $2-3/MT FOB in the deep-water ports and on average up $10/MT FOB in smaller ports. That substantial price rise in smaller ports results from still...
