According to the State Statistics Service, in January-September India imported the largest volumes of Ukrainian agricultural food products in monetary terms – more than 9% of the general export volumes (valued at $959 million), the Deputy Director on scientific work at the National Scientific Center “Institute of agrarian economy” Nikolai Pugachev declared. According to him,…
High competitiveness of Ukrainian products is one of the obstacles to all Ukrainian goods entering European Union markets, Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutoviy has said. “Our products in Europe are too competitive. The cost of production is low, and Europe puts up barriers to keep them out. We do it…
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the program ‘Decentralization Offering Better Results and Efficiency’ (DOBRE), with a budget of $50 million, in Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador in Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch said. The program will help 75 united communities in seven Ukrainian regions, she said at the opening ceremony for the DOBRE program in…
The issue of state-owned ports assignment to private investors has been discussed in Ukraine for several years, but it was not clear which pattern of interrelation with private investors the state will choose – privatization or concession, or perhaps something else. However, it was clear that something had to be done. Many market participants tend…
In January-August Ukraine exported $9.1 billion worth of agricultural products, amounting to 40.1% of the total national exports within this period. “The leaders of the structure of agricultural exports are: crops ($3.6 billion), prepared food products ($1.4 billion), seeds and fruit of oil plants ($0.7 billion), and residues and waste from the food industry ($0.6…
The share of sunflower oil in the structure of Ukrainian vegetable oils production is nearly 96%. In this regard, it’s logical that the majority of population prefers sunflower oil. It should be noted that total consumption of vegetable oils by population of Ukraine has decreased over the past year. Statistics show that in H1 the…
Last week Verkhovna Rada approved of the budget in the first reading session. During the two weeks the government should take into consideration the proposals of all the deputies and introduce the document to the Parliament in the course of the second reading session. The budget can be finally adopted in the second session or…