In the current week the Ukrainian export market of soybean oil demonstrated some increasing of selling prices, due to rather high demand for the product. As of September 13 selling prices for hydrated soybean oil usually varied within the range of $770-775/ton FCA, crude soybean oil – $730-750/ton FCA, up nearly by $10-20/ton compared with…
The public sector accounted for 11.1% of Ukraine’s economy in 2016, while in the first quarter of 2017 (Q1 2017) its share was at 16.3%, according to the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In terms of economic activities, the state share in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries was at 4% in 2016…
The public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia could see over UAH 11 billion of loss from passenger transportation by rail in 2017, Ukrzaliznytsia Chief Financial Officer Andriy Riazantsev said at the presentation of the company’s development strategy. “It is likely that this year we would pass the UAH 11 billion threshold of loss from passenger transportation. These…
Ukraine had as of September 12 sown 535,000 hectares with winter grain crops for the 2018 harvest, which is 7% of the plan, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has said on the website. In particular, winter wheat and triticale crops were sown on 503,000 ha (8% of the plan), rye crops on 20,000 ha…
First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv has attended the official opening of the Ukrainian-Austrian Beehive honey factory in the village of Cherniavka in Cherkasy region. “A new honey production factory Beehive.ukraine opens here. This is a joint Ukrainian-Austrian project with an investment of about EUR 10 million. A…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has said that risks of the larger deviation of inflation from the targeted range 8% plus/minus 2% at the end of 2017 compared to the figures of the July forecast of the central bank have increased. “The current pace of the general consumer price index and its components shows…