As of October 22 Khmelnytsk region has harvested 858,000 tons of sugar beet. According to the Agricultural Department of Khmelnytsk Regional State Administration, agrarians harvested sugar beets from 62% of the total area with the average yield of 51.1 ton/ha. (Ukrsugar/Business World Magazine)
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a motion for ratification by the Verkhovna Rada of amendments to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union on increasing the quota for Ukrainian poultry meat exporters, according to the government portal. The document provides for a gradual 2.5-fold increase in the annual quota for poultry meat…
The Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has announced it will launch a new route from Odesa International Airport to Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital. “Wizz Air airline will launch direct flights from Odesa to Bratislava on November 3. The frequency will be two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays,” according to the airport’s administration. The price…
In January-September the traffic volumes of grains and by-products by rail in Ukraine increased by 23.8% YoY and totaled 28.4 million tons, reported the State Statistics Service. As for the transportation volumes of chemical and mineral fertilizers, in the reporting period the figures increased by 27.8%, to 3.4 million tons. In nine months the Ukrainian…
Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Dmytro Sologub says the country’s public debt at the end of 2019 will be below 55% of GDP due to the strengthening of Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, while earlier this ratio exceeded 80%. Sologub added a strong hryvnia partially reduced budget revenue, according to the…
Bank deposits in the national currency in Ukraine in September grew by 3.1%, to UAH 571.8 billion ($23.1 billion), while deposits in foreign currency shrank by 0.2%, to $15.4 billion in the equivalent. Since the beginning of 2019, bank deposits in hryvnias have increased by 5.9%, while those in foreign currency have grown by 15.6%,…
In 2018-2019 MY Ukraine decreased the export volumes of peas by 21%, to 687 thousand tons, due to the reduced production of the crop and changes in the export geography, as well as the significant difficulties with the supply to the sales destination. In the season the downward trend in the supplies to the Asian…