• World: Crude oil prices on the rise for seven consecutive weeks.

• World: CBOT March soybean futures prices are up 2.3% week-over-week. The contract price is pushed up primarily by the situation with South America’s new soybean crop.

• World: For the week, February futures price for rapeseed gained another 3%. Thursday, January 31, was the last day when the February contract was traded.

• World: Export prices for Malaysian palm oil continue rising. For the week, the price grew by USD 15/MT.

• Ukraine: The share of 15 largest enterprises reached 75% of total crude sunoil production.

• Ukraine: Sunseed price continue rising.

• Russia: The downward trend continues in sunseed market.

• Bulgaria: Sunseed export shipments are slowing down. The price remains stable.

• Turkey:As import duty on crude sunoil was raised by, we expect Turkey to boost oilseed demand in the near term.

• Ukraine is exporting vegoils actively.

• Romania may regain the leadership in production of soybeans

• Black Sea countries increase soybean production.

• CIS countries: The volumes of foreign trade in palm oil are much higher than last year.

The detailed information is available in“Black Sea Vegoils & CIS”.