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EU starts checks on Ukrainian milk producers - 09.09.2009

Inspectors from the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG-SANCO) arrived in Ukraine on September 7 to conduct an audit of Ukrainian milk products, according to the press service of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine. Ukraine starts harvesting sugar beets and sunflowers - 09.09.2009

Ukrainian farms have harvested sunflowers from the first 100,000 hectares and sugar beets from 1,000 hectares as of September 4, Agriculture Minister Yuriy Melnyk has said. Russian grain prices fall - 09.09.2009

Most Russian grain prices declined last week as new crop grain continued to arrive on the market, analysts said on Monday, adding that prices may fall further due to a delay in government grain purchases. Forward contracts for ordinary milling wheat with protein content of 11.5 percent were fixed at $160-$162 per tonne FOB Novorossiisk compared to $162.5 the week before, the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) said. Ukraine: low quality of sunflower in Crimea - 08.09.2009

According to the polling of agricultural producers, realized by APK-Inform Agency, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea faced the decrease of qualitative indices of sunflower seed of the new crop. Ukraine to reduce grain exports this year - 08.09.2009

Ukraine exported 3,7 million tons of grain since the beginning of 2009/10 marketing year (July 2009- June 2010), according to the Ministry of Agriculture of the country. Ukraine to reduce area planted with winter grain crops by 5.7% in 2009 -ministry - 08.09.2009

Ukraine will plant winter grain crops on 7.783 million hectares in 2009, down 5.7% from 2008, the Agricultural Policy Ministry said. Sauces production, exports, imports down in H1 2009 - 08.09.2009

On preliminary estimate of the State Statistics Committee, in the first half of 2009, sauces production in Ukraine dropped by 10% year-over-year to 119,400 tons. Auchan, Tesco seen bidding for O'Key - 08.09.2009

French retailer Auchan and Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, are among the potential bidders for Ukrainian hypermarket group O'Key, just-food understands. British Sugar’s owner expects higher sugar profits - 08.09.2009

"The combination of our leading position in the UK with that of Azucarera Ebro in Iberia, together with access to the sugars of the Least Developed Countries provided by Illovo, gives us a strong presence in the EU market." Four companies control 87% of ketchup market in value - 07.09.2009

According to the company Unilever Ukraine, four companies-producers accounted for 87% of Ukrainian ketchup market by sales in value in 2008. Russia. RGU supports imposition of 10% import duties for soybeans - 07.09.2009

On Aug. 27, the committee of directors of Russian Grain Union (RGU) accepted the decision to initiate the imposition of the import duty at the rate of 10%, but not lower Ђ30 per tonne, for soybeans imported into the Russian Federation. Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218