President Shavkat Mirziyoyev set a goal to increase the capacity of solar and wind power plants in Uzbekistan to 8,000 MW until 2026, presidential press service has reported. Nearly $6 billion worth of components and materials will be needed to build new solar and wind power stations. The head of the state instructed to develop…
Drought caused reduction of grain harvest by 38% in the republic, but a grain shortage should not be expected, the Minister of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan Askarbek Dzhanybekov announced at a briefing in Bishkek. “Harvest of food grains, including seeds and feed wheat, barley dropped by 38%. But this will not influence the physical volume of…
Ukraine expects domestic rail and water transport to be included in the priority chains of product supplies to the European Union within the framework of the European Green Deal, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna has said during a press conference on the results of international climate negotiations for…
In January-October, milk production in Ukraine decreased by 6% YoY, to 7.528 million tons, the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) reported. “This was due to a significant drop in production by private households,” the association said, adding that the ratio of industrial and milk production by private households over the reporting period totaled 30.6% to…
In January-October, the enterprises in Uzbekistan manufactured 356.1 trillion soums worth of industrial products, the republic’s State Statistics Committee reported. The volume of industrial production increased by 9.5% compared to the same period last year. The manufacturing industry accounted for 82.9% of all industrial production, mining industry and open-pit mining – 9.6%, electricity, gas, steam…
The unemployment rate in Georgia increased by 2.5% in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period of last year, amounting to 19.5%, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) reported. In urban areas, the unemployment rate grew by 1.9%, while in rural areas it increased by 3.5%. The economic activity rate, or…
In October, the electricity consumption limit was exceeded by 530 million kilowatt-hours, or by 10.4%, the National Energy Holding reported. Non-observance of the set limits can lead to “deep depletion” of the Toktogul reservoir and the introduction of restrictions on electricity consumption in the regions. To prevent this from happening, measures have been taken to…