State-owned companies bring UAH 87 billion in losses to the budget, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting. “UAH 87 billion. If we add corruption and inefficiency to this, then we will have hundreds of billions hryvnias that are taken from Ukrainian citizens,” Groysman said. Therefore, he said that the government…
According to the Ag Ministry of Kazakhstan, the country exported 444.2 KMT of grain in May, up by 25.8% YoY. At the same time, flour exports totaled 153.9 KMT, down by 11.3% YoY (173.5 KMT). In 2017, Kazakh flour and grain exports lag behind last year. Kazakhstan shipped abroad 2114.6 KMT of grains for the…
As of July 3, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 1.076 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 337 thousand ha, or 4% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.19 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, agrarians harvested wheat throughout 74 thousand ha. The production volumes…
Russian airline Pegas Fly is starting to operate flights from Moscow’s Zhukovsky International Airport to Baku from July 27, said a message on the airport’s website. The airline will operate regular passenger Zhukovsky-Baku flights three times per week until October 29. On Thursdays, departure from Moscow to Baku will take place at 10:45 local time…
The absence of productive rain over a long time caused faster ripening of early cereals in the southern and central regions, along with premature drying of those planted after non-fallow predecessors. As a result, kernels failed to get filled: they are shriveled with a low 1000-kernel weight (23-35 g). As of today, winter wheat in…
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan enter new level of relations as Ashgabat has hosted the high-level talks between Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on July 3. Overall the top-level talks focused on the regional safety and bilateral cooperation. Particular attention in this regard was paid to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.…
On June 30 a grant agreement for “the Project for Improvement of Substations in Dushanbe” was signed between Tajikistan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the amount of 2,190 million Japanese Yen (about $20 million), JICA Tajikistan Office reported. The document was reportedly inked by the Minister of Finance of Tajikistan Abdusalom Qurboniyon…