On March 4, Ukraine had 8.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its underground gas storage facilities. The data has been provided by PJSC Ukrtransgaz, the operator of Ukraine’s gas transport system. According to the company, Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities are 26% full. A total of 16.5 million cubic meters is taken per…
Cotton will be sown in Turkmen Ahal, Lebap and Mary provinces on March 25, and in Dashoguz province on March 29, the Turkmen government said in a message. The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Turkmen Cabinet of Ministers. According to the message, around 1.5 million tons of cotton are planned to be…
Uzbekistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed loan agreements worth $573 million. In particular, the ADB allocated a $100-million loan for a project on financing small businesses in rural areas and for businesses of women entrepreneurs. A $121-million loan was allocated to develop water supply systems in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent region. The agreements were signed…
“In the framework of the project “Financing of Agriculture-5″ the seed farms were provided loans at 6% per annum for three years,” the First Vice Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammetkaly Abulgaziev said. He urged farmers to use this opportunity actively. “The goal of republican seed industry is to ensure farmers in regions of the country…
According to the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in January the production volumes of vegetable oils totaled 24.6 thousand tons, up by 6% YoY. At the same time, during the first five months of 2016/2017 MY (September-January) the reporting growth dynamics reached 13% YoY, to 155.4 thousand…
The public joint-stock company Kharkiv Tractor Plant in 2017 will participate in military production cooperation and in work to fulfill the government’s military production, including the program to substitute domestic goods in the military sphere, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said during a visit to the factory in Kharkiv. The head of state said the state…
Passenger traffic in two Armenian airports grew by 21.6% in January-February against the same period the year before. The traffic at Yerevan’s Zvartnots international airport grew by 19.8% in the first two months of 2017 as compared to the same period in 2016. According to the General Department of Civil Aviation, 168,741 passengers have used…