The State Fishing Agency reports a rise in fish catch in Ukrainian water basins (inland water basins and seas) in January through June by 19.4% YoY, to 22,900 tons. The agency said in a press release that total fish catch in the Azov and Black seas grew by almost 20.5%, to 16,000 tons, including a…
The Government of Kyrgyzstan has approved the Concept of development of the jewelry industry of the Kyrgyz Republic until 2018. There are currently about 255 gold deposits in Kyrgyzstan, total reserves of which amount to 2,149 tones. The main part of gold is mined at Kumtor mine, gold production of which is ranked the 3rd…
Another round of talks on Azerbaijan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) started in Geneva, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said. According to the ministry, at the negotiations the Azerbaijani delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammad-Guliyev. Earlier, Chidu Osakwe, director of the WTO office of accession, said the changes taking place in…
In late July Ukraine plans to reach natural gas imports from Europe in the amount of about 40 million cubic meters (mcm) per day, president of PJSC Ukrtransgaz Ihor Prokopiv has said. According to him, in the last days of July the company plans to pump some 500 mcm of gas into underground gas storage…
Ukraine is interested in strengthening cooperation with China, particularly in attracting Chinese investment and broad access of the Ukrainian goods and technologies to the Chinese market. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing Hennady Zubko said this during a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Ukraine Du Wei, the…
As of July 22, agrarians harvested 21.34 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 5.88 million ha, or 61% of the plan (9.6 million ha, according to estimates). The average yield totaled 3.63 t/ha. At the same time, on the same date in 2015 agrarians harvested 16.91 million tons of grains…
By July 21, Ukrainian farmers had threshed 312.0 thousand ha of rapeseed, which was 68.4% of the plan (456 thousand ha). 805 KMT was harvested with average productivity of 2.58 MT/ha. Despite the fact that harvesting progress is behind the last year`s pace, productivity is higher. By the same date in 2015 nearly 414 thousand…