A symbolic cargo of Russian wheat has set sail for Saudi Arabia from a Black Sea port seven months after conditions were set to allow the trade, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Russia's agriculture safety watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, confirmed the 60,000-ton cargo had departed.
The world's largest wheat exporter had long sought...
Prices for wheat exports from Russia jumped last week due to limits on shipments imposed by Romania, Ukraine, and Moscow itself, and as the ruble strengthened against the dollar, analysts told Reuters on Monday.
Last week, Romania banned grain exports to non-European Union destinations until mid-May to cover its domestic...
The Eucofel association, which brings together national and regional fruit & vegetables producers federations and companies from Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Portugal, has called on Brussels to resume dialogue with Russia to try to reopen the market for European agricultural food products, as a measure to...
The agricultural minister of Russia’s Amur Region Oleg Turkov announced this week that soybean exports to China will be suspended until June amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported this week.
All Amur soybeans have to be processed both by native enterprises or used within the home market, the minister...
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) will check the information about rising food prices, the watchdog’s press service said, according to TASS.
Earlier, the speaker of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin asked Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to take measures to control rising food prices. According to Volodin,...
Russia plans to retain the position of the biggest global wheat exporter, press service of the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday with reference to minister Dmitry Patrushev, according to TASS.
"Russia will continue boosting food trade both with Saudi Arabia and other priority markets in the future, due to which...
The food reserve created in Russia will be enough for two months at the least, the Telegram channel of the Russian official coronavirus website sponsored by the Healthcare Ministry reported, citing data from the Ministry of Trade.
"The country has the food reserve for two months at the least and...
A sharp increase in onion prices in the Ukrainian market have caused a real stir, leading some companies to consider imports from Russia, EastFruit reports.
A week ago, traders from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan began to export onions to Ukraine, and at the end of the previous week, the first offers...
Up to 83% of Russia’s state grain stockpile will be sold on the domestic market, starting on April 13, the Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
The ministry, which has 1.8 million tons of grain in its stockpile, had previously planned to sell 1 million tons from it.
The...
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation said this week that it expects state support measures to further boost the production of berry crops, Fruit-Inform reported.
The estimated indicator for the 2020 season is 19 thousand tons. It is not a great rise (+1.6%), but ahead of the 2019...
