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Indonesia’s president has signed a moratorium on new palm oil development and ordered a review of existing plantations, an official said Thursday, in a blow to an industry blamed for environmental destruction and worker exploitation. Prabianto Mukti Wibowo, a deputy minister at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, said the moratorium, first announced by president […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 26-Sep-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Anchau Market, Kaduna State. Beans (White) 100Kg 27,000 Tier 730 299 28,000 760 -1000 -30 Garri (White) 50Kg 17,000 Tier 410 247 17,000 410 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 120Kg […]
One of the largest buyers of Canadian wheat has a problem with the quality of the product. Peru purchased more than one million tonnes of Canadian wheat in 2017-18, making it Canada’s sixth largest customer. “We normally don’t think of Peru as a strong export market but they are,” said Cam Dahl, president of Cereals […]
WORLD, the leading fertilizer company, OCP Group and Hubei Forbon Technology Limited, a Chinese company specializing in fertilizer additives, signed a framework agreement to create a global partnership for the production of new generation fertilizers and smart agriculture. According to a statement to the press, which was published at the OCP headquarters in Casablanca, Morocco, […]
A company in Scotland has unveiled what it claims is arguably the world’s most technically advanced indoor farm. Intelligent Growth Solutions’ vertical farm uses artificial intelligence and specially designed power and communication technologies. The firm says this reduces energy costs by 50 per cent and labour costs by 80 per cent when compared to other […]
That tonnage would be lower than last year’s crop when farmers harvested 300.2m tons of grains. Coceral also revised down the wheat crop from 138.8m tons to 129.9m tons, which would again be lower than the 141.9m tons reached in 2017. It said the reductions mainly concern wheat production in Germany, France, the UK and […]
In an effort to boost exports of fruits and vegetables in Nigeria, the Agricultural Quarantine Service in Nigeria (NAQS) said that it is working with the Europe-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Liaison Committee (COLEACP) to resolve the export embargo on Nigeria's agricultural production in Europe . Director of NAQS, Dr. Vincent Isseghbe, spoke about this in Abuja at the […]
Dear subscribers and visitors of UkrAgroConsult website, please, take note of our company’s work schedule during the VI International Conference “Black Sea Oil Trade-2018”. On September 20, 2018 information in online sections “Daily Ag reports” and “Prices and Futures”, will not update, as well as data in mobile application “Black Sea Grain & Oil”. Besides, […]
Governor David Umaha of Ebony won the Governor of the New Telegraph Award for outstanding achievements in the field of agriculture. The main spokesman for Umah, Emmanuel Uzor, who reported this during a briefing for journalists in Abakali, said that this is the fourth consecutive victory of the governor. The pattern explained that Umakhi, according […]
Akinvumi Adesina, President of AfDB Today, a large-scale conference on agricultural innovation, launched jointly by the African Development Bank and Purdue University, is starting on the school grounds in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America. The conference, which is due to end on Thursday, will focus on the transition of agricultural innovation from research […]
Brazilian farmers sped up soy and corn plantings this week for the country’s next grain crop, under favorable weather conditions and a positive market outlook, despite a sharp fall in soybean futures in Chicago on Tuesday. Soybean planting in Brazil’s second-largest producing state of Paraná reached 9% of the expected final area this week, up […]
Wheat production in Canada grew by 3.5 percent in 2018 compared to 2017, according to a Statistics Canada survey based in part on satellite and agroclimate data. The survey, released on Wednesday, also said that barley production grew by 4.3 percent while oat production fell by 9.4 percent. Canola production was also forecast to edge […]
On September 20, 2018, in Kyiv, Hilton, took place a leading event of the Fat&Oil Industry of Ukraine and Black Sea countries – the VI International Conference ‘Black Sea Oil Trade-2018’. More than 200 delegates from 27 countries attended the event. Professional agribusiness experts from Ukraine, India, USA and Brazil contributed to the agenda, covering […]
Today on September 20 Kyiv welcomes a leading meeting point of the Black Sea and global oilseed market operators – the VI International Conference ‘Black Sea Oil Trade-2018’. Organizer – UkrAgroConsult. Sponsor – ST Equipment & Technology (USA). “Black Sea Oil Trade” Conference will traditionally unite the key market players to learn, trade and network […]
Political and social instability, which is not the main reason, may be associated with environmental degradation in some areas. Although the use of force in the struggle for limited resources is not new, some believe that the balance between acceptable and unacceptable competition was located, in particular in the Sahelian areas, which led to more […]