The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has updated its forecast for gross production of grains and oilseeds and expects Ukrainian farmers to harvest up to 76.7 million tons in 2023. This year Ukrainian agrarians can harvest about 56.4 million tons of grain and 20.3 million tons of oilseeds. In early spring, the…
On the night of August 10, Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), temporarily seized by Russian troops, lost power from the main 750 kV external power line, Energoatom reported. After that, ZNPP had to switch to the only available backup line of 330 kV, the disconnection of which threatened ZNPP to lose external power (blackout). “In…
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted amendments to legislation that simplify the registration and operation of the winemaking business. The relevant draft law (No. 9030) was supported by the people’s deputies of Ukraine in the second reading and in general at a session on August 9. Simplifying business registration for winemakers was recommended by…
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, adopted at the second reading and in its entirety the government’s draft law on state reserves (No. 9079), First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko posted on Facebook. “Today, the Parliament supported the law on the transformation of state material reserves (No. 9079), developed by the Ministry…
The energy facilities’ repair campaign goes according to plan. “The situation in the energy sector. According to the Ministry of Energy, the repair campaign goes according to plan. Nuclear units. Five nuclear units with a capacity of 4.4 GW have been repaired. Four more units with a capacity of 3.4 GW are under repair,” Prime…
Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom repaired five nuclear reactors at the country’s nuclear power plants this year, the company’s president, Petro Kotin, said. “All our nuclear reactors are gradually going through the period of repairs and overloading of nuclear fuel. To date, the fifth nuclear reactor in the country has been returned to…
Payments to agrarians under the government grant programme to support small and medium-sized businesses are actively continuing. As of today, five more agricultural companies from different regions of Ukraine (Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn and Kyiv) have received UAH 15.8 million from the Government to develop orchards and greenhouses. Since the beginning of the year, 91…