Oil World reported that oilseeds import in Indonesia reached 330,000 tons in January 2017, which is more than twice higher than January 2016 – 142,000 tons. Soybean was the main import target – 303,000 tons (111,000).
Barley sowing in France has been rather slow for the past two weeks due the rain. Only 5% of the planned areas were sowed in the past seven days, FranceAgriMer reported.
On March 15, 2017 Egypt's state sompany GASC bought 415,000 tons of wheat from Russia, Ukraine and France to be delivered between April 15 and April 25.
According to information from market operators, farmers in Argentina will start soybean harvesting in two weeks’ time. First yield soybean is now ripening.
According to an FAS USDA forecast, in 2017 – 2018 oilseed yield in Turkey (sunflower, soybean and cotton) will grow by 11% versus the current season up to 2.71 mln tons.
