As of September 20, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 40.812 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10.392 million ha, or 72% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.93 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 39.3…
Agroliga – group of agricultural companies begins the construction of a new sunseed oil extracting plant with project capacity of 170 KMT of oilseeds per year. After the launch of the first production line, planned for September-October 2017, the crushing capacity will equal 100 KMT per year. Financing will be mixed and will be done…
The State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) Dushanbevodokanal (DVK, municipal waterworks) plans to raise water prices by 20% beginning on October 1. The Antimonopoly Agency has partially complied with the DVK proposal to raise water prices for residential customers. “Starting from October 1, the price of one cubic meter of water for residential customers will be raised…
Organized by the World Bank, the Central Asia Water Future Forum and Expo is being held in the Kazakh city of Almaty on September 19-22. The event has reportedly brought together over 200 policy makers and practitioners from governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan, the international community of water practitioners, as well…
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG hired Ulrike Andres as its new Commercial & External Affairs Director. Andres has held a number of management roles at a senior level in the oil and gas industry and joins TAP from the Transalpine Pipeline Group – Europe’s largest pipeline company transporting crude oil from Trieste to eight central…
The construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is designed to transport Azerbaijani gas to Europe, is progressing in Greece. TAP AG tweeted that over 17 km line pipes have been strung and 5 km welded along the pipeline route in Greece. On August 24, TAP AG tweeted that it started welding pipes in…
Tajikistan has begun supplying surplus electricity to the neighboring Kyrgyzstan after all. According to Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national integrated power company), about 14% of electricity generated in Tajikistan last month was exported to the neighboring countries, including Kyrgyzstan. Last month, Tajikistan reportedly supplied 10.2 million kWh of surplus electricity to Kyrgyzstan, down by 32.2 million…