Since last week not a single new ship could join participate in the grain initiative. Since June 26, no vessels have been allowed to participate in the grain agreement, despite 29 applications submitted to the Joint Coordination Center, reported the UN. According to UN Deputy Press Sec... #agroexportukraine #FarhanHaq #GrainAgreement
Ukraine beef producers increased meat exports by 260% this year. In January-May 2023, Ukraine exported 9,600 tons of beef, which is 260% more than in the same period last year. According to UCAB, May was the most productive month as Ukrainian producers sold 2,500 t... #agroexportukraine #BeefExport #MaksymHopka #MeatExport #UkraineBeef
Ukrainian AgroTech startup FarmFleet raises $550,000. FarmFleet, a Ukrainian company engaged in the optimization of agribusiness and the development of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies, announced the successful completion of a round of pre-seed finan... #AgroInnovations #AgroRobotics #FarmFleet #ValeryYakovenko
Ukrainian farmers expect a high wheat yield this year. According to a survey by the UkrAgroConsult company, most Ukrainian farmers expect a high wheat yield in 2023. In particular, 64% of respondents predict it will exceed five tons per hectare. The expec... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #WheatHarvest
The export of agricultural products from Ukraine decreased by 18% over last week. During the 47th week of the grain corridor, from June 19 to 25, 2023, 358,300 tons of agricultural products were exported through the Odesa region’s seaports, which is 18% less than in the previous we... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #OdesaSeaport #UkraineExport
Ukraine and Britain will monitor the grain being stolen by the invaders. Ukraine and Great Britain are discussing the issue of cooperation to track the grain that the Russians are stealing from the temporarily occupied territories, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.... #agroUkraine #GrainStolenByRUssia #KakhovkaReservoir #MarkSpencer #StolenGrain #TarasVysotskyi #Ukrainiangrain
Termination of the grain corridor will put pressure on the hryvnia. “Implementing the termination of the grain corridor will have negative consequences for Ukrainian exports with a corresponding decrease in foreign currency inflows to the country and a possible increa... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainAgreement #GrainCorridors #hryvniaexchangerate #nbu
The development of Ukraine’s agricultural and energy capacities guarantees the security of the entire world. The reconstruction and development of agricultural and energy facilities in Ukraine will protect the world from chaos, said President Zelenskyy during his speech in London. According to him, at least ... #agroUkraine #ConferenceLondon2023 #energyukraine #RenewableEnergyUkraine #UkraineRecoveryConference #Zelenskyy
Ukraine will lose $8 billion annually due to mined agricultural lands. The revenue losses will result because the land will be idle, researchers say. Experts have estimated that agricultural losses from the full-scale invasion, as of April 24, 2023, amounted to $8.7B, of... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
The sowing campaign in Ukraine is ending with 103% of planned farmland planted. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of June 15 the area under early grain and leguminous crops reached 5.6 million hectares, 3% higher than the March forecast. At the same time, the planted a... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #Grainsowing #SowingUkraine
Farmers from Ukraine’s southern regions will need at least eight years to return production to pre-war levels. According to the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, this will not possible until the Kakhovka HPP’s reconstruction. This amount of time will be needed because it will take five years to restore the station, ... #agroUkraine #DenysMarchuk #FarmersUkraine #KakhovkaHPP
The G7 plans to introduce chemical identification to fight the theft of Ukrainian grain. This proposal was voiced by the Minister of Food and Agriculture of Great Britain, Mark Spencer, at the conference of the International Grain Council in London. He added that Great Britain is leading ... #grainexport #MarkSpencer #SanctionsAgainstRussia #StolenGrain #Ukrainiangrain
Exports through the grain corridor increased by 65% during the last week, but the overall indicator decreased by 2.2%. From June 5 to 11, 651,000 tons of agricultural products were exported through the seaports of Odesa through the grain agreement, which is 65% more than a week ago, according to UCAB. There were 13 ve... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #GrainCorridors
The EU has eased the grain embargo, and Ukraine will raise the issue of compensation for losses from unilateral restrictions of five border countries. According to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, the European Commission excluded 11-12 groups of goods from the extended list of restrictions on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #OlgaStefanishyna #UrsulavonderLeyen
The American forecast for the harvest and export of Ukrainian grains has increased. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) updated its forecast for the balance of major agricultural crops for the 2023/2024 marketing year, in which it increased the indicators of production... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #SowingUkraine #usda
The agriculture losses from the Kakhovka HPP disaster may exceed $10B, and environmental damage already exceeds UAH 55B, as Minister of Environmental Protection Ruslan Strilets reported. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy thinks the farming, environmental and social spheres will suffer the most due to the lack of irrigatio... #AgroLossesUkraine #KakhovkaHPP #MykolaSolsky #RenewableEnergy #RuslanStrilets #TarasVysotskyi
The Kakhovka Dam Disaster in Ukraine has increased wheat prices and threatens global food security. On the morning of June 6 wheat prices increased by 3% to approximately $6.40 per bushel, according to Barchart Trader. Also, Chicago wheat rose more than 2% to a nearly three-week high. The Kakhovka d... #GrainHarvestUkraine #GrainPrices #KakhovkaHPP #KakhovkaHPPdestruction #Ukrainianwheatprice
Two dry ports for agricultural exports are to be built in western Ukraine. The new grain facilities will be constructed in the Volyn region, said the head of the regional department of agro-industrial development, Yuriy Yurchenko. He clarified that new construction is underw... #agroexportukraine #DryPort #grainexport #NewDryPortUkraine #YuriyYurchenko
The EU plans to extend the embargo on the import of Ukrainian grain. The European Commission has not decided regarding the extension of restrictions on importing agricultural products from Ukraine to five neighboring EU countries, EC spokeswoman Miriam Garcia Ferrer sa... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #GrainEmbargo #MiriamGarciaFerrer #UkraineGrainExport
Ukraine responded to the EU grain embargo by banning the export of sugar. A shortage of this product is expected in Hungary because the country is its largest importer from Ukraine. According to ObservatorNews, from October 2022 to April 2023 it imported almost 85,000 tons ... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #RomaniaImportSugar #RomanianSugarImports #SugarExport #SugarfromUkraine
Ukraine is preparing for sea exports without a grain agreement and will compensate war-damaged ships. The Ministry of Infrastructure reported that the government had approved a procedure for indemnifying civilian vessels entering its ports for damages. Launching the damage compensation mechanism will ... #MilitaryRiskInsurance #UkraineSeaPorts #UkrainianShipInsurance #WarRisks
The volume of Ukrainian agricultural exports in May hit a 9-month low. In May, the total export of agricultural products from Ukraine decreased by 3% compared to April, to 5.1 million tons, according to the agricultural association. It is noted that the grain corridor ha... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #GrainCorridors #UkraineExport
Ukrainian farmers predict a 36% reduction in grain and oilseed crops. The Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) has given a preliminary estimate of the potential 2023 harvest at 68 million tons of grain and oilseeds, 36% less than 2021’s pre-war figure, 106 million. Last ye... #GrainHarvestUkraine #HarvestUkraine2023 #SowingUkraine #Ukrainianfarmers
Ukraine has increased imports of agricultural products from the EU by €285M. Data for the first quarter shows that Ukraine imported more than €914M in agricultural products from the EU. This is €285M more than the import figure for the same period in 2022 and €107M more than t... #AgroImportUkraine #HumanitarianAid #UkraineImport #VegetablesImport
Ukraine insists on lifting restrictions on agricultural exports to the EU. At a meeting of the EU Council in Brussels, the Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Mykola Solskyi, said that Ukraine and the EU should find a solution through joint consultations. According t... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #MykolaSolsky #UkraineExport
Ukraine plans to attract foreign investors to construct grain elevators on the borders with the EU. The relevant Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament has developed a draft law to help attract foreign investment to build a land corridor to export Ukrainian agricultural products. “This will contribut... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #GrainElevator #GrainStorage #OleksandrHaydu
Ukrainian Railways has increased grain delivery to seaports after grain corridor initiative shipments resumed. According to top UZ manager Valery Tkachov, during the week the volume of unloaded grain trucks in the ports increased by almost 480% from 92 to 535 wagons per day. In addition, the number of wagons ... #GrainAgreement #grainexport #IzmailSeaPort #OdesaSeaport #UkrainianRailways #ValeryTkachov
Ukrainian farmers’ losses due to the war have reached $3.9B. The largest losses were suffered by small farmers specializing in crop and livestock production, the UN FAO reported. According to a survey’s result, the number of small producers in Ukraine decreased... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #FAO #FarmersUkraine
Russia violates the grain agreement: exports from Ukraine have fallen by 78%, and losses have reached $1B. The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Yurii Vaskov, said that due to the Russian Federation’s actions, the Southern Port was forced to suspend operation. All ships within the grain corrido... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #grainexport #PivdennyiSeaPort #YuriyVaskov.
The unloading of grain in the ports of Odesa is decreasing despite the grain initiative. Ukrainian Railways continues to record a significant decrease in grain unloading rates in the ports of Greater Odesa, the company’s top manager Valery Tkachov said. He specified that the rate of... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #grainexport #ValeryTkachov
The Ukrainian agricultural sector’s losses from the war amount to $40.2B, according to the Center for Food and Land Use Research at the Kyiv School of Economics’ calculations. In particular, the Ukrainian agricultural sector has suffered $8.7B in direct losses. Since Novemb... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #WarinUkraine
With the help of Turkey and the UN, the Ukraine grain initiative has been extended for 60 days. According to Turkish officials, a deal allowing Ukraine to export crops from key ports via the Black Sea is set to be extended until July 18th, with Russia agreeing to stay in the beleaguered pact. Mo... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine plans to sow a 12-year record wheat area. Farmers have already planted 247,000 hectares of spring wheat by mid-May out of the planned 285,000 hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine reported. They noted that the last time similar... #agroUkraine #Grainsowing #SowingUkraine #WheatProduction
Ukraine assumes the grain corridor will cease on May 18, so it is preparing plan B. Negotiations regarding the extension of the agreement have reached an impasse, and no additional meetings are planned, according to a representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Ac... #agroexportukraine #AndriyKlymenko #GrainAgreement #SerhiyLabaziuk #Ukrainiangrain
Despite the war, Ukrainian farmland is becoming more expensive. The price of Ukrainian agricultural land increased by an average of 20% in January-April 2023, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Denis Bashlyk said. He added that the land value increase is observed ... #agroUkraine #DenysBashlyk #FarmLand #FarmLandPriceUkraine
Ukraine and the European Commission will create a consultative group to monitor issues related to the export of Ukrainian grain. During a press conference in Kyiv with the president of the European Commission, Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on neighboring countries and the EU states to refrain from any decisions regarding trade wit... #GrainCrisis #GrainExportUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen #Zelenskyy
More than 2 100 wagons with grain are in a queue at the port of Izmail, which fulfills the annual cargo handling plan in a record five months. As of May 8 4,978 loaded wagons were moving toward Izmail, of which 2,168 contain grain cargoes, Ukrainian Railways top manager Valery Tkachov said. At the same time, grain unloading by port operators... #agroexportukraine #GrainExportUkraine #IzmailSeaPort #UkrainianRailways #ValeryTkachov
Nibulon is investing in constructing a large elevator and a mill at the port of Izmail. New investment by one of Ukraine’s largest grain market operators will increase shipments from the current 170,000 tons of grain per month to a potentially possible 300,000 tons. To realize this... #agroexportukraine #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #GrainElevator #GrainStorage #nibulon
The grain corridor’s operation is on the verge of failure. The Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul could not agree on permits for new vessels to participate in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, stated Farhan Haq, the official representative of the UN Secretar... #agroexportukraine #FarhanHaq #GrainAgreement #GrainCorridors #MevlütÇavuşoğlu #RebeccaGreenspan
Moldova wants to ban the import of Ukrainian grain, and Ukraine is preparing measures in response. According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Moldova, Minister Volodymyr Bolya met with EU Ambassador Jānis Mažeiks to announce applying temporary measures identical to those introduced in some EU coun... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #TarasKachka #VolodymyrBolya
One of the largest agricultural holdings is investing $10M in a new grain terminal on the Danube. Kernel plans to build a new transshipment terminal, Development Reni Terminal, in the port Reni on the Danube by the end of 2023. The company reported that the terminal will be built on a plot of land... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #GrainTerminal #Kernel
The European Commission has banned the import of Ukrainian products to five EU countries for one month. The ban applies to four agricultural products – wheat, corn, rapeseed, and sunflower seeds. These are now prohibited from being sold to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The EC n... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #Ukrainiangrain
Due to the occupation, 24% of arable land in Ukraine will remain unsown. Accordingly, the gross collection of agricultural products will drop by approximately 25% from the pre-war level, said First Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi. He reminded observe... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #SowingUkraine #TarasVysotskyi
Grain crisis: the EC has banned the import of Ukrainian sunflower oil to Poland, and Hungary imposed an embargo on 25 types of Ukrainian foods. The European Commission has expanded the list of goods subject to an import ban to Poland from Ukraine, adding sunflower oil. However, the transit of these products will be allowed. Polish Minister of... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #PeterKullgren #RobertTelus
Poland wants to ban the import of Ukrainian agricultural products through the end of the year. In negotiations with the European Commission, the country seeks to extend the ban on imports until the end of 2023, said Polish Minister of Agriculture Robert Telus. “It is significant for us that the... #agroexportukraine #RobertTelus
Poland clarified the terms of transit of Ukrainian grain and increased the number of ports. According to the Minister of Development and Technology of Poland, Waldemar Buda, from April 28, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Świnoujście, and Szczecin will be joined by Kolobrzeg in the east of the country, which... #agroexportukraine #UkrainianGrainTransit #WaldemarBuda
Five countries have asked the European Commission to expand the list of prohibited imports from Ukraine. The letter was written by the agriculture ministers from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary. They believe transit-only imports should cover a broader range of products than wheat, corn, ... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis
The Polish business community is outraged by the import ban on Ukrainian agricultural products. The statement from the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce emphasizes that the Polish authorities introduced the ban without consulting the business community. This decision poses problems for both U... #agroexportukraine #JacekPiehota
The EU will introduce external restrictions on grain imports from Ukraine under pressure from Eastern European countries. According to the FT, EU members are discussing banning imports of wheat, corn, oilseeds, and sunflower seeds to the bloc’s four countries bordering Ukraine and Bulgaria by June, except for re-ex... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #UrsulavonderLeyen
The EU will allocate €100M to farmers in five countries amid the Ukrainian grain crisis. The European Commission will adopt a new support package for EU farmers affected by the influx of Ukrainian agricultural products, the chief EC spokesperson said in Brussels. The member states have ag... #Farmers #GrainCrisis #Ukrainiangrain
