According to the State Statistics Committee, as of April 1, stocks of grain and pulses in Ukraine totaled 7.98 MMT, down by 20% YoY. Corn stocks decreased by 36%, to 3.073 MMT compared to 4.814 MMT on June 1, 2015. Wheat stocks went down by 3.6%, to 3.867 MMT, barley – by 13%, to 693…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved of the free trade area agreement with Canada and declared its readiness to sign it in the near future. This was posted on the Twitter account of the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry. “The Government approved of FTA agreement with Canada and confirmed readiness to sign…
Since the beginning of this year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have received international aid worth about $60 million, chief of the military cooperation and peacekeeping operations department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Leonid Holopatiuk said. “This amount includes technical assistance from the United States valued at more than $53…
Ukraine will ship aircraft weapons for Mikoyan MiG-21 fighter jets of the Polish Air Force. The military equipment inspectorate of Poland’s National Defense Ministry reported on its website that the consortium formed by Ukraine’s Spectechnoexport and Poland’s WB Electronics won a tender to supply R-27P1 medium-range air-to-air missiles for MiG-21 fighter jets of the Polish…
In May Ukraine imported 11.8 KMT of palm oil against 7.7 KMT in May 2015. Slight reduction in this product imports was observed for the second consecutive month. In April Ukraine imported 14 KMT. This reduction didn’t have a great impact on the season’s results. During the first nine months of the current season (September…
In 2015, the production of sunflower seed became the most profitable type of agricultural business in Ukraine, with the profitability index at 80.5% in UAH, and the production of eggs took the second position at 60.9%, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on July 4. The leaders of the rating did…
Investment of Nibulon into the launch of a river-handling terminal near Voznesensk (Mykolaiv region) totaled 450 million UAH. “The cost of the high-tech terminal located on 12.5 ha was some 450 million UAH”, the company said. The terminal can store 76 thousand tons of grain, the daily capacity of dryers is 4 thousand tons, and…