In September strong public interest was aroused by the Cabinet’s decision to cancel state regulation of prices and mark-ups for socially sensitive goods. This pilot project started on October 1, for a three-month period until the beginning of 2017. The project is aimed at proving the expediency of Ukraine’s current price regulation under which price…
In 2016 Kazakhstan produced one of the record harvests of grain crops in the history of the country’s independence, including 17.9 million tons of wheat and 3.3 million tons of barley, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Minister of Agriculture Askar Myrzahmetov declared. According to the announcement, in the current year Kazakhstan…
As of November 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 18.84 million tons (up by 4.3 million tons MoM), the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 4.411 million tons of grains. Wheat formed the major…
In 2016 the profitability of agricultural production is expected to reach 41.8%, down by 3.8% YoY, the Director of the National Scientific Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics” Academician of the NAAS Yuri Lupenko declared. In particular, the level of profitability in plant growing commodities production will decline by 1.7% YoY, to 48.9%. The profitability of…
The necessity to additionally capitalize state-run banks will be established after assessing their credit risks in line with the resolution of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) No. 351 on the approval of the procedure for determining credit risks under active bank transactions by banks that was recently endorsed, Deputy Finance Minister Yuriy Butsa has…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a working meeting on preparations for the first Global Sustainable Transport Conference to be held on November 26-27 in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said in a message. He said that in modern conditions the cooperation in the transportation and communications sector gained special importance as an essential factor of global…
In January-September Kazakhstan exported 5.2 million tons of grains including flour in grain equivalent, the expert of the department of plant growing products growing and processing at the Ministry of Agriculture Sagintay Zhumazhanov declared. In 2015 Kazakhstan supplied 7 million tons of grains and flour to foreign countries. The list of traditional importers of Kazakh…