Uzbek exporters and regional and district khokims continue negotiations on exports to foreign countries, including European states, at Green Week, an international agricultural exhibition. On the fourth day, exporters met representatives of Central Investments Worldwide L.P. and Better International Trade (UK), GIZ (Germany), Avietes (Lithuania), Befresh (Israel), Greenfield Agro and Shri Niwas Dall & Besan…
Uzbekistan Airways announced it planned to launch flights to Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Lahore (Pakistan) in 2017. The company is also working on flights to Mumbai (India) and Guangzhou (China). Director-General Valeriy Tyan said Uzbekistan Airways bought 4 more Boeing 787 Dreamliners and went ahead with Tashkent 4, a new passenger terminal expected to serve 1,500…
Ministry of Economy of Kyrgyzstan has agreed to revise the country’s Tax Code after criticism of businessmen. Minister of Economy Arzybek Kozhoshev said that the Tax Code had technical errors. In 2015, a group was formed, which worked on a new version of the Tax Code. The Ministry of Economy noted that the current version…
Ashgabat hosted the next meeting of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) of Central Asia. The ICWC is the body of five governments, which entrusted direct functions of water resources management and development and maintenance of sustainable natural and hydro ecological processes on transboundary water resources to the ministries (State Committees, Departments) of water…
The government of Japan in 2017 intends to allocate about $290,000 on projects of donor organizations in the sphere of medicine and health education in Ukraine. “We are happy to sign these five project proposals, four of which involve medicine, and one health education. It is very important for Ukraine,” Japan’s ambassador to Ukraine Shigeki…
In 2016/2017 MY the export potential of Ukrainian feed corn will total nearly 18 million tons, up by 9% YoY. At the same time, in October 2016 Ukraine exported over 1.35 million tones of corn, which became the absolute record for the reporting month. But due to the record global production of corn, as well…
In 2016 the imports of wheat to Tajikistan totaled over 1.34 million tons, up by 16.9% YoY. Kazakhstan was the main country-supplier of wheat, the Head of the Antimonopoly service at the Government of Tajikistan Sajdi Kodirzoda said. Also, in the reporting period Tajikistan imported nearly 88.8 thousand tons of flour (the average price totaled…