Russian Grain Market: 17-24 January 2012 GRAIN COMMODITIES AND FLOUR A major recent event in the Russian grain market was the government-held auction of grains from state purchasing interventions. The 24 January event was attended by 226 Russian companies. The total amount of the grain purchased during the auction was RUB 62.7 million ($2.04 million). In the course of the auction there were 13,500 MT of 2011 harvest grain purchased, including:
10,800 MT of 3rd category milling wheat (at average price $153/MT); and, 2,700 MT of 4th category milling wheat (at average price $145/MT).
The total volume of the 2011 grain harvest purchased to the state intervention fund is 345,465,000 MT, worth a total of RUB 1.58 billion ($51.48 milli...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
