Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the country’s gas consumption fell by 30%. “Now Ukraine is consuming 30% less gas thanks to the mechanisms implemented”, he told students of the Shevchenko National University. He said tariff increases in the country were linked to the fact that Ukraine had gotten rid of dependence on Russian gas.…
In the first half of 2016, the United States invested $710 million in Ukraine’s economy, the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported on its Facebook page. “The United States is one of Ukraine’s most important partners, and relations between the countries become even stronger. The total trade turnover has come to $1.2 billion over…
In August Ukrainian barley exports grew by 17% YoY and equaled 1924 KMT against 1019.5 KMT. During the first two months of 2016/2017 (July-August) Ukrainian exporters shipped 2204 KMT of barley, which is an absolute record for the period. Traditionally in August Saudi Arabia lowered its purchases, importing 371 KMT against 523 KMT in the…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has amended the law on 2016 national budget, expanding expenses on defense and security by 7.1 billion UAH without the increase in the deficit of the national budget. A total of 265 lawmakers backed bill No. 5217 at the session of the parliament. The government’s bill was registered in parliament on October…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of October 6, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout nearly 15 million ha, or 97.7% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 22.643 million tons of grains, up by 4.962 million tons YoY. The average…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said the Cabinet of Ministers plans to approve the starting price of Odessa port-side chemical plant proposed by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF). “We are now looking forward to proposals from the State Property Fund for the next round of the sale of the object. I believe…
Short-term rains observed last week did not replenish soil moisture stocks considerably and moistened only the upper soil layer. The situation is better in the 10-cm soil layer and sowing campaign is coming to the end in quite good conditions. Plants sown in the first half of September are at the stage of first-third leave…