Belarus: Exports of malting barley recorded 38,500 t as of August 29

The Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAF) controls the sales of malting barley on account of government buying. By August 29 the enterprises have sold 38,500 tonnes of malting barley; that is 25.7% of the plan, AgriMarket released August 29.

Also they prepared about 17.000 tonnes more. In total government buying is for 150,000 tonnes. Low sales of malting barley on account of government buying are caused by selecting grain on raw areas of barley production as well as in different enterprises. Because of small size of grains the enterprises should sort it on grain-receiving points; brewing plants receive grain themselves. According to Deputy Director of central administration of crop science of MAF, Vladimir Kuratnik, the processors have the opportunity to select qualitative grain for brewing - in total they collected 258,000 t.

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