«Graintek» - Forum & Expo on grain processing & industrial biotechnology. Topics includes gluten, starches, glucose and fructose syrups, bioplastics (succinic, lactic and other organic acids) and other value added fermentation products
ASTANA, September 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Kazakhstan's ministry of agriculture hopes for a record-breaking harvest of up to 20 million tons of grain in 2011. Addressing a Kazakh-German meeting on cooperation in the area of agriculture and food procurements, Yevgeny Aman, the secretary of the Kazakh ministry of agriculture, said this year's harvest is expected to be the richest one in the past 20 years, so his country will be able to export more than 10 million tons.
Landkom International, a producer of oil-bearing and grain crops in Ukraine, has plans to invest USD 10 million in the construction of a biofuel factory in Busk district, Lviv region, by the end of 2012. Serhii Datsenko, the head of the bio-energy department of the company, announced this at the Second international conference "Effective Management of Large-Sized Agrarian Companies."
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Russian wheat export prices have eased for the first time this season after Kazakhstan recently appeared as a supplier, at a time when fears are growing that drought in the U.S. could propel prices for the grain higher. Concerns that globally prices for various grains will rise were strengthened by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's revision down Monday of expectations for average corn yield from its August prediction, citing the hot weather across the central Plains, Midwest and Southeast regions.
Astana. August 26. Interfax-Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan is going to build a plant for deep grain processing, the CEO of Prodcorporation (public grain procurement operator in Kazakhstan) Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov said.
Russian grain processing company Rusbiotekh is expected to launch a 6.75 billion ruble amino acid plant in the Rostov Region in mid-2013, Vladimir Kudryashov, general director of holding company Teso Inzhiniring, the operator of the project, said Wednesday.
The development of deep grain processing in Russia is the only way to increase domestic grain consumption, which has been shrinking in recent years, Vice President of the Russian Grain Union Alexander Korbut said at a news conference Monday. Korbut attributed the decline to reduced grain consumption in the foodstuff industry and the development of cattle breeding technology.
The cooperation agreement between the Government of Bashkortostan and the company "Alrai Group Holding Limited" on realization of the investment project with the use of biotechnologies of the fourth and the fifth generations was signed in Ufa on July 22 by the Prime-Minister of the Government RB Azamat Ilimbetov and the President of "Alrai Group" Attic Zaman, the press-service of the Government RB reported. The document presumes construction of the center for processing of 400 tons of the fourth-class wheat and other grain for production of the dry gluten, starch and biopolymers.
According to operative data as of September 13, 2011, agrarians of the Russian Federation harvested grains and leguminous crops throughout the areas of 30.6 mln ha (69% of the sowing areas), and produced 74.2 mln tonnes of grains (in 2010 - 49.7 mln tonnes). The average yield totaled 24.2 c/ha (in 2010 - 19.5 c/ha, in 2009 - 25 c/ha), declared the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
