International British procurement agency Crown Agents plans to purchase drugs and medical products from funds of the national budget of Ukraine for 2016 by March next year, Crown Agents senior procurement consultant Christine Jackson has said. According to the terms outlined in the agreement Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and Crown Agents signed on October 27,…
The export market of Kazakhstan saw growth of milling wheat prices last week. It was fueled by the following factors: reviving demand from key importers; consequent growth of Kazakh wheat exports by a third against 2015 early in the season; rising domestic prices for milling wheat in Kazakhstan against the background of volatility of the…
Purchase prices for grain in Bulgaria’s domestic market closed the week with an increase following their downturn a week ago. At the same time, the Bulgarian lev has devalued by almost 5% over the two weeks. Market purchases of milling wheat remain quite brisk. Growth of prices was reported both in the domestic and export…
Ukraine uses the potential of organic agricultural production by less than 10%, while this sector is promising for the development of small and medium-sized businesses, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi said. “Ukraine has an extraordinary potential for organic production, which today is used by less than 10% of our capabilities. It…
Belarus’ BelAZ heavy-duty truck manufacturer (Zhodino, Minsk region) has designed the MoAZ-65010 dump truck for subsurface mining. The compact dump truck with a 15-ton load capacity has been custom-made for Russia’s OAO Kombinat KMAruda. BelAZ will ship the new truck to the customer in early 2017 for acceptance tests. The truck is 2.1 meters wide…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash has sent the first batch of cotton harvesters to Cameroon, Igor Korotkevich, First Deputy Director of the company’s Regional Sales Department, reported. The harvesters will be delivered to Cameroon in roughly one month. “By that time our specialists will have arrived in Cameron in order to prepare the machines…
Belarus endorses the recommendation of the OECD in terms of upgrading SME capacity and has already developed specific measures to implement them, Belarus’ Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky said during the roundtable held as part of the OECD Eurasia Week 2016 in Paris. Presenting a set of measures to implement the proposals of the OECD experts,…