In January-September the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 0.9% YoY at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine announced. In particular, the production of plant growing products grew by 2.4%, while livestock products was down by 2.6%. According to the statistics data,…
Ukroboronprom State Concern initiates the creation of the UKRARPA defense innovation development platform. The initiative to create the platform meeting modern trends of global defense industry was announced by Ukroboronprom head Roman Romanov at the 13th Arms and Security 2016 in Kyiv. “The form of UKRARPA has been selected. It would unite designers, start-ups, investment…
Slovakia’s Grand Power S.R.O. and Ukroboronprom State Concern will start cooperating in small arms production. The agreement of cooperation was signed by the Slovakian company and Ukroboronservice, part of Ukroboronprom, on Tuesday in Kyiv at the 13th Arms and Security Exhibition. The concern said that under the agreement the sides would jointly work on new…
Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta has switched to crude oil refining on a tolling basis for the entire volume of oil produced by the company at Kremenchuk oil refinery, Ukrnafta head Mark Rollins reported. “Since May, we have been buying our own crude oil at auctions via an intermediary. We would like to do this directly,…
Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta intends to create its own company to trade with gas and try to import gas from Europe, Ukrnafta head Mark Rollins reported. “We plan to create a trading company, first to trade with own resources, but we will also make experiments and buy some volumes of gas in Europe”, he said.…
As of October 11, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 46.668 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 11.403 million ha, or 80% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.09 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year production volumes reached 47.2 million…
Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF) announced open auctions to sell property of Kostiantynivska and Myheiska hydroelectric powers plants (HPPs) located on the Southern Bug River. The starting price of the plants is 13.761 million UAH and 10.863 million UAH respectively. The auction to sell Kostiantynivska HPP (Mykolaiv region) will be held on November 22, and…