Natural gas production in Ukraine in January and February tentatively grew by 0.5% YoY or by 17.8 million cubic meters, to 3.358 billion cubic meters, Ukrtransgaz has reported. Ukrgazvydobuvannia produced 2.408 billion cubic meters of gas in January-February (down by 1.1% YoY), Ukrnafta – 205.5 million cubic meters (down by 6.4%) and other companies –…
Mustard production in the fat-and-oil sector hit a three-year high of 1.046 KMT in December 2016. It exceeded 1 KMT for the first time. 2016 appeared a make-or-break year for the Ukrainian mustard market: its two-year shrinkage was reversed. Overall mustard production reached 7.696 KMT in 2016, or up by 11% YoY (6.939 KMT) and…
Ukraine’s international reserves at the end of February stood at $15.5 billion against $15.445 billion at the beginning of the month, Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeriya Gontareva has said. “We plan to increase our reserves, if the situation on the foreign exchange market allows us to do it,” Gontareva said. She…
Ukraine imported 2.82 billion cubic meters of gas from Europe in January-February, up by 30% YoY, the gas pipeline operator Ukrtransgaz has said. This included 2.408 billion cubic meters of gas from Slovakia, 179.9 million cubic meters from Hungary and 232 million cubic meters from Poland. Ukraine imported 1.37 billion cubic meters of gas from…
In the current season, Ukraine demonstrated rather record rates of wheat supplying to foreign markets. During the period of July-January of 2016/2017 MY, the exports of Ukrainian wheat reached 12.7 million tons, up by 16% YoY (11 million tons). At the same time, Ukraine showed a significant increase of grain exports in the Asian direction.…
Electricity tariffs for households (the population) from March 1, increased by 2.6-30.2% depending on the volume of consumption compared with the rates being in force since September 1, 2016. Earlier tariffs for the population were divided into three blocks, depending on the amount of consumption: up to 100 kWh per month, from 100 kWh to…
Real wages in Ukraine in January compared to January 2016 increased by 21.4% and compared to December 2016 they fell by 8.3%, the State Statistics Service has said. The largest growth of average wages in January compared with January 2016 was observed in Ternopil (by 54.3%), Zakarpattia (51.8%), Chernivtsi (50.3%), Volyn and Kherson (49.8% each),…