Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow by 0.6% in January-March and by 0.8% in April-June excluding seasonality, the central bank’s forecasting department said in a research note on March 6, revising its previous estimations of a 0.4% and 0.5-0.6% growth respectively. The estimate for the second quarter is based on a Urals…
The public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia on March 4, reached daily gas production of 42 million cubic meters, according to the data from the public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz. If on March 1, the company produced 41.131 million cubic meters of gas, on March 2 – 41.088 million cubic meters, March 3 – 41.577 million cubic meters,…
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…