Production of milk in Ukraine in January-September (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, part of the ATO zone) decreased by 0.9% YoY, to 8.109 million tons. According to the State Statistics Service, egg production increased by 1.6%, to 12.117 billion units. Production of meat (live weight) in January-September grew by 0.1%, to…
After the nuclear power plant goes online, Belarus will import electricity if doing so is economically expedient, Belarusian Energy Minister Vladimir Potupchik said during the Belarusian Energy and Ecology Forum on October 11. In basic mode the Belarusian nuclear power plant will generate about 18 billion kWh. It will produce over 40% of the total…
Azerbaijan’s export of fruit and vegetable products increased by 63% in terms of volume in January-September as compared to the same period 2016, said Chairman of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev. Aliyev made the remarks addressing an Azerbaijani-German business forum in Baku on October 11. He noted that during the period, export of plastics…
In January-September the grain terminal JSC Ak Biday Terminal, the subsidiary company of the National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC, shipped 269.1 thousand tons of grains through its grain terminal in the Aktau port, the press-service of the Corporation declared. In January-August JSC Ak Biday Terminal transshipped 193.7 thousand tons of grains. The grain terminal…
Alcohol excise duty will bring in some EUR 80 million less than estimated by the Ministry of Finance to Estonian state coffers next year, says the Estonian Institute of Economic Research (EKI), according to which this year’s revenues from the duty are smaller in absolute terms despite a steep rate hike. “The price difference with…
The consumer price index for goods and services totaled 100.3% in September as against August, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported. The consumer price index for goods and services totaled 102.7% in September as against December 2016. The core CPI that excludes certain items that face volatile price movements due to administrative and seasonal…
Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kyiv) has become the third bank in Ukraine that will be able to carry out operations with the cash reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and also provide regional banks with cash and take surplus from them, reads a report on the NBU’s website. According to the report, Raiffeisen Bank…