Turkmenistan will plant winter wheat for the harvest-2018 throughout the areas of 760 thousand ha.
Turkmen agrarians started the planting campaign of winter wheat on August 23.
The forecast of winter wheat production in 2018 totals 1.6 million tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Overall, Latvian consumers are satisfied with the purchases they make on Internet stores. 65.3% of respondents believe Internet stores are safe and reliable. 44.7% of respondents say they have never had any problems when shopping on the Internet, according to results of a survey performed by Gudriem.lv. People who have had problems often mention two…
DetailsBelarus may close the year 2017 with the inflation below 7%, Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said after the government conference chaired by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. “The inflation keeps reducing and the tendency is strong. We are slightly behind the Russian Federation in terms of the seven-month inflation rate, but we are doing better…
DetailsThe trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Georgia amounted to $425.91 million in January-July, up by 34.2% YoY. Azerbaijan occupies the fifth place among the importers of Georgian products, according to Georgia’s Statistics Service. During the reporting period, the supply of goods from Georgia to Azerbaijan increased by 83.5%, to $106.07 million. The share of Azerbaijan…
DetailsIndustrial production in Ukraine in July declined by 2.6% YoY, against a 3.8% rise in June and a 1.2% rise in May, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has said. The authority said that this was linked to a decline in mining and quarry development industry by 9.4%, a 10.2% decrease in the supply of…
DetailsThis year, UAH 20 billion should be spent on the construction of roads, and UAH 30 billion next year, president Petro Poroshenko said. “We set a task to allocate UAH 20 billion for the construction of roads this year, and UAH 30 billion in the next year. This is the dynamics that I want to…
DetailsThe current market situation shows that Latvia should speed up its education reform and think about attracting additional human resources from other countries, said Latvian Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola. “We have a number of problems. We see unemployment is in decline, dropping to 7.2% in the past three years, whereas the number of employed people…
DetailsGM Uzbekistan has announced about suspension of car production due to maintenance work. The car manufacturer GM Uzbekistan located in Asaka, suspends production from August 22 till September 10 due to the planned maintenance work, said the company’s press service. It is planned to carry out preventive inspection and maintenance of main and auxiliary processing…
DetailsA mutual contract has been signed between Latvian Defense Ministry and Danish Defense Ministry for the procurement of anti-air missile launchers used by the Danish armed forces, as confirmed by Latvian Defense Ministry. It is planned that the launchers will be delivered in the first half of 2018. As noted by Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds…
DetailsRetail trade in Ukraine grew by 8% YoY in January-July, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service’s website. Retail turnover increased the most in Zakarpattia, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, and Lviv regions – by 21%, 17.7%, 12.8%, 10.8%, 10.6%, 9.5% and 9.5%, respectively. Retail trade in July alone rose by 6.7% against June, while…
DetailsThis year the grain yield in Belarus is above last year’s average, Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun said. “This year the grain yield in the country is above last year’s figures. The average yield in 2017 is 35.8 hundredweights per hectare, with Grodno region posting the crop capacity of 43.5 hundredweights per…
DetailsUntil the end of August, the third phase of the reconstruction of Suusamyr – Talas – Taraz highway will have been completed, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan informed. According to it, the second layer of asphalt is being laid from 75th to 105th km of the road. The company “Chakyr Yapy Sanayiwe…
DetailsUkraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, intends to launch long-haul flights to India and Canada in summer 2018. According to the press service of the company, the matter concerns flights to Delhi and Toronto to be performed four and three times a week respectively. As reported, the commission of the State…
DetailsOn August 22, Ukraine and Israel will hold the tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation in Kyiv. This was reported by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. “The tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation will be held in Kyiv on…
DetailsIn recent years, Latvia has managed to reduce the electricity price difference with other Baltic neighboring countries, as reported by Enefit Chairman Janis Bethers. “Although Latvian households still pay the most for electricity, these expenses will continue declining. The price difference with Estonia, which historically has the lowest wholesale prices, has declined nearly 2-fold,” says…
DetailsThe total loss of Ukrainian solvent banks was estimated at UAH 223 million in January-July, down 41.5-fold YoY, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Ukraine’s solvent banks received UAH 1.43 billion in profit over the period under review. According to the NBU, incomes of banks for January-July amounted to UAH 101.624 billion, which…
DetailsThe high price on butter in Latvia will not remain so high for long, said Farmers Saeima Vice-Chairperson Maira Dzelzkaleja-Burmistre. “We will not have to deal with such a high price for long,” she said. She adds that the price should stabilize in the next couple of months. It is likely, however, that it will…
DetailsMore Russian airlines will fly to Azerbaijan, which enjoys a growing popularity among Russian tourists. The “Ural Airlines” has received permission to fly to Azerbaijan, according to the Rosaviation, Russia’s Federal Air Transportation Agency. The airline received a permission to perform the regular passenger flights Moscow-Lankaran with a frequency of seven times per week. “IrAero”…
DetailsA zero rate of customs duties has been introduced on butter, soybean and sunflower oil seed (potatoes, wheat, meslin, rye, barley, oats, corn, grain sorghum, buckwheat, millet, soybean, flax, sunflower, etc.), rye flour, groats and flour from durum wheat, cane sugar, cacao beans, the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals, some products for animal feeding. Starting…
DetailsAs of August 20, a total of 1,889.500 hectares, or 87%, of areas under crops have been harvested in Belarus so far. The harvest campaign has been completed in Brest region (the yield is 36.7 hundredweights per hectare), the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry reported. As of August 20, Belarus’ grain harvest exceeded 6.779 million…
DetailsPreparatory work on the construction of a section of the road Kyzyl-Kiya-Kok-Talaa of the Osh-Batken-Isfana road in Batken region began. This was reported by the press service of the plenipotentiary representation of the government in the region. According to it, the section of the road is 33 km. Its construction is financed by the Islamic…
DetailsUkrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) is conducting a pretrial investigation into a criminal case regarding abuse of office by officials of Ukrspyrt causing large loss to the state. The press service of the PGO said that the investigators had established that officials of Ukrspyrt abused office when holding tenders to procure natural gas for the…
DetailsAs of today, 600 km of roads in Ukraine have been repaired; the funds have been allocated from the state budget, credit resources, as well as proceeds from the overfulfilment of customs payments, Head of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) Slawomir Nowak said at a government meeting. “August 18 was the…
DetailsNext year’s fiscal space has been estimated at EUR 60 million, as noted by Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola, adding that a more precise estimate will be available at the end of August. In July, the minister predicted the country’s fiscal space might be slightly above EUR 80 million. She promised to provide precise numbers in…
DetailsThe Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ will display its haul trucks at the international mining exhibition Aimex 2017 which will take place in Sidney, Australia on August 29-31, according to the website of the Belarusian company. BelAZ will showcase the models of its haul trucks designed for the operation in the tropical climate of Australia,…
DetailsA total of 1,742.600 hectares, or 80.2%, of areas under crops have been harvested in Belarus so far, the Agriculture and Food Ministry reported. As of August 18, Belarus’ grain harvest exceeded 6.274 million tons. Brest region harvested more than 1,205.8 million tons, Minsk region – 1,546.000 tons. Gomel region and Grodno region cropped 896,800…
DetailsAudit meeting, reviewing the results of the work of oil and gas industry’s enterprises over the past seven months of 2017, was organized in Ashgabat. At the meeting reports on the promotion of several major investment projects, the construction of a gas chemical complex for the production of polyethylene and polypropylene and a plant for…
DetailsAzerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to provide funding for the construction of Chaparli-Kandoba-Jalayir road.
Under the presidential order, 5.8 million manats is allocated from the state budget for the construction of the road connecting eight residential areas with a total population of 8,000 people. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
Ukraine should increase the volume of restoration works in Donbas, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has said following his visit to the region. “We should together with the prime minister and the president launch a powerful program to restore infrastructure in Donbas next year: roads, railways, aviation,” he wrote on his Facebook page. The…
DetailsThe National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) at the foreign exchange auction on August 17 bought $44 million, according to the press service of the central bank. As a result of the auction, the minimum exchange rate of hryvnia was UAH 25.5 per U.S. dollar, the maximum – UAH 25.5195 per U.S. dollar, and the average…
Details