Gnidava Sugar Refinery audits sugar beet crops and forecasts the croppage and processing of 500 thousand tons of beets, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gnidava Sugar Refinery on the raw materials, Oleksandr Nikishyn, declared. The company said that this amount of sugar beet would provide the refinery with 100 days of active work, and…
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, says Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins has reassured him that his country does not intend to purchase electricity from Belarus’ Astravyets nuclear plant under construction close to the Lithuanian border. “I met with the Latvian president, the chairwoman of the Saeima and the prime minister in Aglona…
The unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 0.7% to 11.4% in the second quarter of 2019, said the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). In Q2 the economically active population constituted 63.7% of the working age population (population aged 15 and older). “In comparison with the same quarter of the previous year, the economic activity…
During the first seven months of 2019 Azerbaijan imported 653.23 thousand tons of wheat (valued at $145.8 million), up by 9.2% YoY, reported the State Customs Committee. In addition, in the period the imports of meat increased to 28.8 thousand tons (by 12.1%) valued at $43.3 million, while the imports of edible vegetable and animal…
Sumy region has completed harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops, according to the Agricultural and Industrial Development Department of the Sumy Regional State Administration. “Early harvesting of grain and leguminous crops has been completed in Sumy region. All categories of farms in the region gathered 1.192 million tons of grain, with an average yield…