Ukraine: planted areas of high-oleic sunflower seed up

During several recent years, the Ukrainian market of high-oleic sunflower seed demonstrated the positive dynamics of development, with annually increasing the planted areas under the oilseed, and its share in the general planted areas of all types of sunflower seed, the oilseed analyst at APK-Inform Agency Julia Ivanitskaya declared. According to APK-Inform estimations, in 2016/2017…

Ukraine: Astarta harvesting campaign

Astarta’s subsidiaries are successfully conducting autumn field works on the harvesting of the technical crops and preparation of soils for the following year. As of the middle of September, the company has already harvested 80% of the area under soybean and 40% under sunflower, the harvesting of the corn has just started. The company carries…

Ukraine: IMF approves of third $1 billion tranche

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second review of Ukraine’s implementation of an economic program backed by the Extended Fund Facility and approved of the disbursement of a third tranche worth SDR 716.11 million, or about $1 billion, the IMF said in a statement. “This brings total disbursements under the…

Ukraine: Arterium buys Marifarm

Arterium Corporation (Kyiv) has acquired Marifarm pharmaceutical company (Maribor, Slovenia) from Slovenian bank Nova KBM (NKBM). The bank has not disclosed the amount of the transaction. According to unofficial information from Maribor’s local edition Vecer, it is estimated at 6.8 million euro. Arterium and Marifarm intend to jointly explore new possibilities of development of pharmaceutical…