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Cabinet to permit Agrarian Fund buying non-qualitative rye for Food Reserve in 2007/08
12.09.2007 08:56 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Cabinet is going to permit Agrarian Fund to purchase, as an exception, rye characterized with lowered “test weight” (i.e. grain weight per 1 liter) for State Food Reserve in 2007/08 MY, reported Ukrainian Agrarian-Industrial Complex Vice Premier Viktor Slauta. As to Slauta, Government Committee for Agrarian-Industrial Complex has approved draft Decree stipulating Agrarian Fund purchases of rye with “test weight” index down 15% against official standard fixed by State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy (State Standard). Slauta says this will enable Fund to buy more rye in order to stabilize country market prices situation. Earlier, Volodymyr Ivanishyn, Agrarian Fund General Director, declared Fund had already asked Cabinet to permit buying lowered normative weight rye; Ivanishyn said change of GOST standard was necessary for Fund to timely fill Food Reserve stocks up to level required by Cabinet and due to this year rye low crop. As to Agro Perspective earlier report, this year agrarians have harvested 458,300 MT winter rye. As to Agro Perspective, in 2006 agrarians had harvested 583,600 MT rye at 359,600 ha (average yield – 16,2 metric centners per ha). 2006 grains crop totaled 34.3 mn MT (2005 – 38.015 mn MT).
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