- 13:22 13/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian grain exports this year may exceed the official forecast of 20 million tons, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Tuesday.
- 18:05 25/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti, Agata Sheremet)
The Russian Grain Union has raised its harvest forecast for this agricultural year to 92 million tons from 85-90 million tons previously due to favorable weather, but the bumper crop means farmers will have difficulties in finding a market for all the grain, the union says.
- 12:30 01/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is lifting from July 1 its grain export ban imposed last summer in the wake of a severe drought in the country but its comeback to world grain markets is unlikely to be easy, experts said on Friday.
- 13:38 15/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's union of grain producers is opposed to the Central Bank's move to introduce grain export duties as a lever against inflation, the union's president, Pavel Skurikhin, said on Wednesday.
- 12:26 08/06/2011
Russia's Economic Development Ministry believes it necessary to impose a mechanism restraining sharp jumps in local grain prices, which could lead to consumer price inflation growth, Deputy Minister Andrei Klepach said on Wednesday.
- 17:34 31/05/2011
Russia will harvest 85 million tons of grain this year and export 15 million tons, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov predicted on Tuesday.
- 17:16 30/05/2011
The forthcoming end to Russia's grain export ban is the only serious factor that can spur consumer price inflation in Russia, central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on Monday.
- 11:55 28/05/2011
Russian authorities have decided to cancel an embargo on grain exports, which was imposed last year in the wake of a severe drought, from July 1, the prime minister said on Saturday.
- 11:42 28/05/2011
Russian authorities have decided to cancel a ban on grain exports, which was imposed last year in the wake of a severe drought, from July 1, the prime minister said on Saturday.
- 17:20 05/04/2011
This year's grain harvest is a key factor in whether the Russian government will achieve its 6-7% consumer price inflation target, Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on Tuesday.
- 16:36 25/03/2011
Russia will not lift its grain export ban before September or October 2011 as the government wants to ensure stable domestic supplies, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Friday.
- 12:06 15/03/2011 By Agata Sheremet
Russia is unlikely to lift its grain export ban until the end of the year and may even extend it into 2012 to ensure the country has enough grain to cover its own needs, analysts say.
- 10:39 11/01/2011
Russia cancelled its flour export ban on January 1, following appeals from flour millers who fear losing foreign customers.
- 15:54 30/11/2010
Russian grain prices may increase 33% in the first quarter of 2011 to 9,000 rubles ($290) per ton from the current 6,000-7,000 rubles, the President of Russia's Union of Grain Producers Pavel Skurikhin said on Tuesday.
- 15:15 30/11/2010
Russia should export food grain from the country's south and import feed grain instead, National Grain Producers Union President Pavel Skurikhin said on Tuesday.
- 17:56 29/11/2010
Russia's grain market may need additional government support measures , First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Monday.
- 16:33 29/11/2010
Russia will sow three million hectares more spring crops next year to compensate for the low 2010 winter crops sowing, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 14:34 23/11/2010
The Russian government will start selling grain from the state intervention fund, if domestic grain prices rise to 7,000-8,000 rubles per ton from the current 6,000 rubles, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Tuesday.
- 11:12 22/11/2010
The Russian government may sell over 50 percent of the grain held in its intervention fund to keep grain prices stable, Vedomosti business daily said on Monday.
- 16:37 02/11/2010
Russia's temporary grain export ban will not necessarily become an efficient measure to avoid consequences of this summer drought, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
- 13:42 27/10/2010
This summer's abnormal heat and drought may have caused a fall of 9-10 percent in Russia's agricultural production this year, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Wednesday.
- 17:20 25/10/2010
Russia will cancel a temporary ban on flour exports from January1, following a government resolution issued on Monday.
- 21:05 22/10/2010
Russia will not export grain until July next year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 16:45 04/10/2010
The Ukrainian government on Monday postponed discussions on the possible introduction of quotas on grain exports, the country's Economics Minister Vasyl Tsushko said.
- 13:27 01/10/2010
There is no point in discussing lifting Russia's grain export embargo before next July, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, responsible for the country's agribusiness, said on Friday.
- 17:43 25/09/2010
Belarus has cropped over 7 million tons of grain, which allows the country not only to cover its own demands, but also to help neighbors, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday.
- 14:03 24/09/2010
This summer's abnormal heat wave and drought may shave off 10 percent from Russia's agricultural production, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Friday.
- 16:54 21/09/2010
Russia's 2010 grain resources will reach 90 million tons, 13 million more than the required domestic volume, Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Tuesday.
- 02:54 19/09/2010
Despite low harvest, Ukraine is ready to render food aid to Georgia and Armenia, who were affected by Russia's grain export ban.
- 21:41 07/09/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Russia will lift a ban on grain exports after next year's harvest is gathered in, not this year's, the president's press service said on Tuesday.
- 17:01 07/09/2010
Russia will not need to import grain since this year's harvest is enough for the country's domestic needs, Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said on Tuesday.
- 17:18 06/09/2010
Russia will cancel its grain export embargo as soon as the situation with the grain harvest becomes clear, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
- 16:07 03/09/2010
Russia has clamped a ban on grain exports until January 1, 2011. Any discussion of repealing the ban will take place only after the 2011 harvest, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a Government Presidium meeting on Thursday.
- 17:03 02/09/2010
Russia may consider lifting a grain export ban only after harvesting 2011's crops, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 12:17 01/09/2010
The Russian government has partially lifted a grain export ban, introduced from August 15 to December 31, and allowed exports under international contracts signed by the Russian Federation and as humanitarian aid.
- 12:59 30/08/2010
Those Russian regions affected by the country's worst ever drought will receive 20-30 billion rubles from the state budget, including budget loans, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.
- 19:33 27/08/2010
The Russian government imposed a ban on the export of grain from August 15 to December 31, after abnormally hot and dry weather destroyed the grain harvest in almost 11 million hectares of land across central Russia.
- 17:46 27/08/2010
The Russian government imposed a ban on the export of grain from August 15 to December 31, after abnormally hot and dry weather destroyed the grain harvest in almost 11 million hectares of land across central Russia. Forecasts for this year's harvest have fallen as low as 60 million tons, 38% down on last year. Arkady Zlochevsky, president of the Russian Grain Union, addresses the deep concerns of Russian society - was the controversial export ban necessary and will it have the desired effect - and also looks at the future prospects for Russia’s grain market.
- 13:52 26/08/2010
Has Russia lost its position on the world grain market and how soon will it be before it resumes grain exports? RIA Novosti finds out in an interview with Agroinvestor’s editor-in-chief, Nikolai Lychev.
- 13:13 26/08/2010
Tajik President Enomali Rakhmon called Thursday on Tajiks to start building up food reserves amid soaring grain prices, suggesting that each family stockpile enough basic foodstuffs to last two years.
- 08:45 26/08/2010
Russia's Krasnoyarsk Region has introduced a two-week moratorium on increases in the price of flour and bread so it can establish the costs involved and set fair prices for bakers and consumers.
- 11:07 24/08/2010
Russia's largest grocery retailers have appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service and a government working group over what they say are unjustified and excessive cases of wholesale food price hikes.
- 09:09 24/08/2010
Prices of rice and buckwheat in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok have almost doubled in a week as a result of drought in western Russia and flooding in southern China.
- 17:50 23/08/2010
Losses sustained by Russia's agribusiness this summer as a result of the worst drought in decades are estimated at 32.7 billion rubles ($1.07 billion), Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexander Petrikov said on Monday.
- 16:32 23/08/2010
Russia's state grain trader United Grain Company (UGC) has started domestic grain supplies with a delivery to a flour mill in a drought-hit regions in central Russia, UGC said on Monday.
- 15:26 23/08/2010
The Russian authorities should introduce a moratorium on loan interest payments by agribusiness affected by the worst drought in decades, the President of the National Union of Grain Producers said on Monday.
- 16:01 20/08/2010
Russia will not import grain this year despite drought wiping out a quarter of its crops, Russian Agriculture Ministry official Oleg Axyonov said on Friday.
- 09:26 19/08/2010
Russia may have to import more than 5 million tons of grain in 2010-2011, Russian business daily Vedomosti quoted on Thursday a source close to the Agriculture Ministry as saying.
- 15:26 18/08/2010
Ukraine will not halt grain exports this year, but may introduce quotas, the country's ambassador to Belarus said at a news conference in Minsk on Wednesday.
- 22:48 16/08/2010
Egypt, the world's biggest grain importer, plans to take measures to cut back on bread consumption and increase domestic grain production following Russia's embargo on grain exports, the country's agriculture minister said on Monday.
- 05:19 16/08/2010
Russia will retain leading positions on the world grain market despite a ban on grain export until the end of the year.
- 04:03 15/08/2010
On Sunday Russia a temporary ban on grain exports came into force in Russia, and is expected to be in place until the end of this year.
- 20:35 13/08/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday backed the Federal Antimonopoly Service's proposal to create a grain exchange.
- 13:56 13/08/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed the the Federal Antimonopoly Service's proposal to create a grain exchange.
- 15:50 12/08/2010
Russia can afford to export no more than 4.5 million tons of grain this agricultural year due to the severe drought that has hit the country, the Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:40 12/08/2010
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ordered prosecutors to work together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service against collusion over fixing grain prices, spokeswoman Marina Gridneva said on Thursday.
- 13:21 12/08/2010
Russia accounts for 10% of all cultivable soils. More than 50% of grain production falls on winter and spring wheat
- 14:13 11/08/2010
Ukraine could avoid imposing quotas on grain exports, despite a drought that has shrunk this year’s crop, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tihipko said on Wednesday.
- 12:38 11/08/2010
London-listed Novorossiysk commercial sea port on the Black Sea may lose up to $40 million over a ban on grain exports imposed by the Russian government from August 15 to December 31 in response to the country's worst drought in decades, business paper Kommersant reported on Wednesday.
- 10:52 11/08/2010
The United States, the world's largest grain exporter, will act as a substitute for Russia on the world grain market when an export embargo comes into force on August 15, Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik told Ekho Moskvy radio station.
- 17:09 10/08/2010
Russia may revise its ban on grain exports after October 1, when the size of the harvest volumes becomes clearer, the government said on Tuesday after informing Egypt, Turkey and Israel.
- 12:29 10/08/2010
The Russian Grain Union has urged the government to lift a temporary ban on flour exports imposed last week as part of a grain product export ban in response to the country's worst drought in decades, the union's spokesman Anton Shaparin said on Tuesday.
- 20:16 09/08/2010
Russia's grain harvest in 2010 may total just 60 million metric tons, or 38% less than last year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a government presidium meeting.
- 17:38 06/08/2010
Russia may revise a ban on exports of grain after the crop is harvested, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told Ekho Moskvy radio station on Friday.
- 09:48 06/08/2010
A severe drought and wildfires have destroyed one-fifth of Russia's crop and forced the country to draw from emergency reserves. Internationally, wheat prices have increased nearly 50 percent since June, fueling worries about a repeat of the food crisis in 2008 that triggered riots from Bangladesh to Haiti to Mozambique.
- 20:09 05/08/2010
Moscow has moved to request that Kazakhstan and Belarus suspend grain exports due to the worsening drought, the Russian government said on Thursday.
- 17:53 05/08/2010
Moscow is to request Kazakhstan and Belarus to suspend grain exports due to the worsening drought, the Russian government said on Thursday.
- 16:02 05/08/2010
Russia will temporarily ban exports of grain and grain products due to the worsening drought, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
- 13:21 05/08/2010
The Russian Agriculture Ministry has postponed any intervention on the grain market until the end of the harvest season in late October and early November, Russia's state grain trader said.
- 12:30 03/08/2010
Russia does not plan to restrict grain exports despite the million hectares of crops that have been destroyed by the worst drought to hit the country in decades, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 14:07 02/08/2010
Russia's grain harvest may fall 20-26 percent to 72-78 million tons in 2010 as Russia suffers its worst drought in decades, Russian Grain Union President Arkady Zlochevsky said on Monday.
- 13:17 30/07/2010
Russia's Agriculture Ministry will soon start selling grain from its intervention fund to the regions which have suffered most from the ongoing drought, the head of the ministry's crop production and plant protection department said on Friday.
- 15:26 13/07/2010
The worst such drought in Russia for 40 years
- 15:04 12/07/2010
The abnormal hot and dry weather in Russia will not cause a grain deficit and bread price growth in the central regions of the country as the harvest will ensure all domestic and export needs, Russia's Grain Union president said on Monday.
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