Kernel, a large agroholding in Ukraine, seeks to invest $130 million in construction of an oilseed crushing plant in Khmelnytsky region. The company said in a press release that the commissioning of the plant was scheduled for 2020. The installed processing capacity of the plant will be 1 million tons of sunflower seeds per year.…
Production of milk in Ukraine in January-September (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, part of the ATO zone) decreased by 0.9% YoY, to 8.109 million tons. According to the State Statistics Service, egg production increased by 1.6%, to 12.117 billion units. Production of meat (live weight) in January-September grew by 0.1%, to…
Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kyiv) has become the third bank in Ukraine that will be able to carry out operations with the cash reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and also provide regional banks with cash and take surplus from them, reads a report on the NBU’s website. According to the report, Raiffeisen Bank…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund continues payments to the depositors of JSC Artem Bank and PJSC Vector Bank, the fund’s press service reports. “From October 10 the Deposit Guarantee Fund has started carrying out payments to the depositors of PJSC Vector Bank, who haven’t received their refunds during previous payments, and the depositors whose accounts have…
Industrial prices in Ukraine in September grew by 1.6% after an increase of 0.4% in August and 1.8% in July, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said. However, growth of industrial prices in September 2017 from September 2016 slowed to 22.4% against 23.6% in August 2017 from August 2016. January through September Ukrainian producers’ prices…
According to market participants, 1158 KMT of barley was exported from Ukraine in August, or slightly less than a year ago (1192 KMT was shipped abroad in August 2016). Barley exports from the country totaled 1973 KMT in the first two months of the 2017-2018 season, or 10.5% less than a year ago (2204 KMT…
Last week Ukraine faced an upward trend in export prices for oybean oil, due to rather high demand for the product from European buyers in terms of a small number of its offers. As of the end of day on October 6, bid prices for crude soybean oil increased by nearly $5-10/tons compared with the…