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…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of July 22, Ukraine exported 1.44 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, wheat exports totaled 297 thousand tons, corn – 386 thousand tons, and barley – 760 thousand tons. Also, Ukraine exported 8.3 thousand tons of wheat…
In the 2015/2016 season Ukrainian seaports set a new grain exports record, surpassing the previous one by nearly 10%. Grain shipments from Ukrainian seaports reached 37.9 MMT, up by 9.5% more than in the previous record year (34.6 MMT). (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)