Transfers from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) to the state budget will be reduced by 1.5 billion manats in 2017, Samir Sharifov, Azerbaijani finance minister, reported. The minister added that the transfers would be reduced to keep the country’s foreign exchange reserves at the same level. “As Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said, while…
Oman is ready to invest in the agricultural sector of Belarus, Sergei Rachkov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Egypt with concurrent accreditation to Oman, Algeria and Sudan, said. “One of Oman’s key tasks is to strengthen its food security. Oman shows big interest in the Belarusian agricultural sector in order to invest in…
Some 451,370 tons of raw cotton were supped to collection points in Turkmenistan, the Turkmen government said. The cotton-picking campaign, which lasts from August to October, has been recently discussed at the governmental meeting. “The measures are being taken and agricultural machinery is used as part of cotton-picking campaign”, the message said. Some 1.05 million…
As of the end of the high season of 2016, International Airport Irkutsk provided services to 1.24 million passengers. According to the company’s press service, the passenger flow during the holidays reached ca. 600 thousand. The number of international flights reached 141.1 thousand, up by 13% YoY. Irkutsk is connected by direct flights with 10…
On September 19-25, Ukraine exported 648.4 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 596.1 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 579.5 thousand tons, barley – 64.9 thousand tons, and corn – 4 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
According to the draft State Budget of Ukraine for 2017, the Government will provide some funds to support the buckwheat and rye markets to stimulate production rates of the reporting grains in Ukraine, the Director of the food products department at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Moroz declared. According to…
The World Bank forecasts that Ukraine’s GDP will be 1% by the end of 2016 and 2% by the end of 2017, World Bank Economist for Ukraine Anastasia Golovach has stated. “We are leaving our GDP growth forecasts for 2016 and 2017 unchanged at 1% and 2% respectively”, Golovach said. According to her, the World…