Rice imports to Ukraine continued shrinking this season. Ukraine imported 14 KMT of rice from July till November 2016/2017, down by 35% YoY. India continues to be Ukraine’s traditional rice supplier, though with noticeably reduced shipments. 5.5 KMT of Indian rice was imported to Ukraine in the period under review against 7.9 KMT in July-November…
Last year, Ukraine supplied 4.8 million tons of sunflower oil to foreign markets, up by 23% YoY, which became a record, the association of enterprises for vegetable oils and fats production and processing Ukroliyaprom declared. Exports of fat-and-oil commodities in monetary terms reached $4.8 billion against $4.2 billion in the previous year. According to the…
The operation results of Astarta agroindustrial holding improved in all business segments in 2016, the company’s press service reported. Astarta’s plants increased sugar production by 42% in 2016/2017 agricultural year (September-August), to 505,000 tons YoY. Gas consumption per ton of sugar beet fell by 4%, to 25,100 cubic meters. In 2016 the company exported a…
S&P Global Ratings assigned its preliminary ‘B’ long-term corporate credit rating to Kernel Holding S.A. (Kernel), a Ukraine-based producer and exporter of sunflower oil and grains. The outlook is stable, S&P said in a press release. S&P assigned its preliminary ‘B’ ratings to Kernel and its proposed U.S. dollar-denominated eurobond. Final ratings will depend on…
The private enterprise Viktor & K (“Korolivsky Smak” brand) is planning to launch a soybean crushing plant in autumn. The new plant will create some 1,000 jobs. In addition, the construction of purification works and a fully computerized product storage terminal is drawing to an end. About 2,000 persons are currently employed at the enterprise.…
Fitch Ratings has assigned Kernel Holding S.A.’s planned benchmark USD unsecured eurobond an expected rating of ‘B+(EXP)’, Fitch said in a press release. Fitch Ratings has placed Kernel’s Long-Term Local-Currency (LC) and Foreign-Currency (FC) Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) on Rating Watch Positive (RWP). The final ratings of the bonds are contingent upon receipt of final…
Grain harvest in Ukraine 2016 has broken a record being 66 million tons (in standard weight), up by 5.9 million tons YoY. Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry reported that in 2016 grain yield records were hit: wheat – 42.1 hundredweights per ha, rye – 27.3 hundredweights per ha, corn – 66 hundredweights per ha…