Ukraine and Georgia have signed an agreement at the governmental level on arranging direct international railroad services through the two countries’ seaports, the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry press service reported. The agreement was signed at the International Maritime Forum in Batumi on September 13. “We signed a very important document today, which links Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan…
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings affirmed its ‘BBB-/A-3’ long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Kazakhstan. The S&P also affirmed the Kazakhstan national scale ratings at ‘kzAA’, the outlook on the long-term ratings is negative, the credit-rating agency said in a message on September 12. The ratings on Kazakhstan remain…
Nibulon retains its positions as the largest exporter of grains from Ukraine. In 2015/2016 MY the company supplied the highest volumes of grains to foreign markets in six recent years – 4.66 million tons, the General Director of Nibulon LLC Oleksiy Vadaturskyy declared. The company increased its exports by almost 14% (572 thousand tons) compared…
As of September 12, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 39.03 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10.01 million ha, or 70% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.9 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 38.1…
During the first ten days of September weather was rather unfavorable for preparation of soil to start the winter rapeseed sowing. The reason was higher average daily temperature, which exceeded the norm by 1.1-6 C, contributing to soil evaporation, and lack of precipitations. Sufficient moistening of upper soil layer (21-30 mm) was observed only in…
16 regions of Ukraine started the planting campaign of winter grains. As of September 12, agrarians planted winter grains throughout 298 thousand ha (4% of the plan), as opposed to 293 thousand ha on the same date last year, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, Ukraine planted winter wheat…
Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of September 7, 599 thousand ha or 10% of the intended area (5905 thousand ha) was threshed, up by 27% YoY (472 thousand ha). 1170 KMT of sunflower was obtained with the average yield of 1.95 MT/ha. In 2015 over the same period 913 KMT of sunflower was…