The state-run enterprise Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviakon (Sumy region), part of Ukroboronprom Concern, has modernized three attack helicopters Mi-24PU-1 for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The helicopters are ready to be handed over to the Land Forces, the concern’s press service reported. During Mi-24PU-1 development special attention was paid to attack helicopters’ security enhancing.…
Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) created using funds of the U.S. government seeks to invest at least $5 million in commercial startups in the Ukrainian IT sector, WNISEF CEO Jaroslawa Z. Johnson said. “We have received a permit to launch a new fund for startups in the IT sector”, she noted. She said that WNISEF…
As of September 9, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.8 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 10 million ha, or 70% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.9 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. On the same date last year the production volumes reached 37.6 million tons. In particular,…
In the current marketing year (July 2016 – June 2017) Kazakhstan plans to export 8.5 million tons of grain, Sabit Kashkimbayev, Deputy Chairman of National Company Food Corporation JSC, said at a briefing on the current state of the harvest campaign in the country. He said that Kazakhstan planned to export 8.5 million tons of…
In January-August the grain terminal JSC Ak Biday Terminal, the subsidiary of the National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC, exported 392.6 thousand tons of grains through its grain terminal in the Aktau port, the press-service of Food Contract Corporation declared. According to the announcement, in the same period of 2015 the shipped volumes exceeded 209…
According to official data, as of September 5, grain crops had been threshed from 6137.2 thousand ha, or 40% of the plan. 9206.3 KMT was harvested with the average yield of 1.5 MT/ha. On the same date of 2015, 3565.4 KMT of grain had been harvested from 2982.2 thousand ha with the average yield of…
The private Egyptian grain trading company Medsofts plans to re-export 31 thousand tons of Russian wheat, after the Egyptian quarantine authorities rejected to unload the shipload contracted in July, due to detection of the ergot fungus traces. The wheat shipload arrived to the Egyptian port of Damietta in July, Medsofts was unable to get clearance…