Head of Luhansk civil and military administration Yuriy Harbuz said Chinese investors were interested in launching photovoltaic (PV) panel production in the region. “Recently I had met with investors from China under the industry development program. We are looking for an option to organize PV panel production here”, he said. He said that the region…
Public joint-stock company Azovobschemash (Mariupol, Donetsk region), the flagship company of the leader of Ukrainian heavy engineering Azovmash Group, will ship 3,000 wagons to Iran, the Ukrainian Embassy in Iran has reported. The cost of the agreement signed with the help of the embassy exceeded 100 million euro. “This is only the first agreement to…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 3.948 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared on August 26. In particular, wheat exports totaled 1.74 million tons, corn – 478 thousand tons, and barley – 1.714 million tons. Ukraine has also supplied nearly 31 thousand tons of wheat…
In the agricultural industry Ukraine has to move in the direction of developing value-added commodities production, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi declared. The Minister noted that large-scale agricultural corporations had fairly good level of development. As for medium and small-scale companies, they have somewhat lower yield level. But at…
Ukraine imported 3.002 billion cubic meters of natural gas worth $586 million in the first half of 2016, including 19.596 million cubic meters worth $4.133 million in June alone. The average cost of imported gas in June was $210.9 per 1,000 cubic meters, up by $26.7 MoM. The bulk of the imports in June –…
Romanian farmers have finished rapeseed harvesting. 2016 rapeseed harvesting campaign was the most productive ever in Romania. For more than 20 years rapeseed acreage in Romania has been expanded to the third largest acreage over the reporting period. In autumn 2015, sowing was carried out at the optimum seeding time. In general, wintering of this…
Trade consequences of regional agreements may be adverse for countries not participating in them, department director of Russian Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Medvedkov said. In particular, Russia’s losses from Ukraine’s associations with the EU may climb to billion values, he added. “These effects are related to surging trade inside the region, sometimes prejudicing turnovers…