As of September 16, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 39.99 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10.21 million ha, or 71% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.91 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 38.5…
UIA started testing SMS notification service informing passengers of all scheduled flights on any delays and cancellations. Therefore, the airline’s clients will be notified of important schedule alterations. Within 48 – 1 hour prior to scheduled departure, passengers who provided UIA with correct contact details when booking their tickets might receive a notification on cancellation…
Almost complete export orientation is the unique feature of the Ukrainian market of sunflower oil, the general director of the Association Ukroliyaprom Stepan Kapshuk reported. Ukraine consumes no more than 10% of the produced sunflower oil, and exports 90% of the remaining volumes. Any export limitations on sunflower oil will cause destabilization of not only…
During several recent years, the Ukrainian market of high-oleic sunflower seed demonstrated the positive dynamics of development, with annually increasing the planted areas under the oilseed, and its share in the general planted areas of all types of sunflower seed, the oilseed analyst at APK-Inform Agency Julia Ivanitskaya declared. According to APK-Inform estimations, in 2016/2017…
Softex-Aero Ukrainian company posted a video of the maiden flight of a new high-speed helicopter VV2 on its YouTube channel. Softex-Aero designed the helicopter’s concept in May. It is a tandem two seater. The helicopter’s power is 190 H.P. /140kW in cruise and 245 H.P. /180 kW in take off. The maximum flight speed is…
Astarta’s subsidiaries are successfully conducting autumn field works on the harvesting of the technical crops and preparation of soils for the following year. As of the middle of September, the company has already harvested 80% of the area under soybean and 40% under sunflower, the harvesting of the corn has just started. The company carries…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has named the main vectors of the country’s socio-economic development which will be taken into account in the draft 2017 state budget. The president noted that the country would continue the reforms on the integrated diversified economic development. These reforms envisage the implementation of major investment projects of international and regional…