Ukraine: flour production down in H1 2016

In January-June Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 888 thousand tons of flour, down by 7% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. At the same time, the production volumes in June totaled 132 thousand tons, up by 0.7% MoM and down by 14.6% YoY. In January-June the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in…

Ukraine: NBU assets up H1 2016

The Statement of Financial Position of the central bank suggest that in January-June the National Bank of Ukraine’s assets increased slightly by 24.8 billion UAH, or by 3% YoY, to 874 billion UAH. “On the asset side of the balance sheet, the largest increase was recorded for item “Ukraine’s International Reserves” (foreign securities, SDR holdings,…

Ukraine: wheat qualitative indices to go up

The ratio between milling wheat and feed wheat in the grain production structure for the harvest-2016 in Ukraine is estimated at 55% and 45% respectively, which exceeds the similar indices of 2015, the State Enterprise State Research and Information Center for Monitoring International Commodity Markets (Derzhzovnishinform) declared. According to market operators, in 2015 the ratio…