26.03.2013
Start of sowing campaign delays in Ukraine
The beginning of the spring sowing campaign in Ukraine may be delayed for two to three weeks because of snow, director of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center Mykola Kulbida told a briefing, ForUm correspondent reports. According to him, farmers will not be able to go into fields for sowing spring cereals for two to three weeks due to adverse weather conditions.
more26.03.2013
Farmers to suffer 19 billion UAH losses due to cancelled tax exemptions
Abolition of preferential tax conditions for the agricultural sector threatens agricultural decline and deterioration of the social situation in the countryside. This was stated by the Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club", Agrarian Union of Ukraine and the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine. The associations sent a relevant letter addressed to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Rybak.
more19.03.2013
Cold weather will not harm winter crops, Kulbida assured
Cold weather will not affect the condition of winter crops, director of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center Mykola Kulbida told a briefing. «In most regions of Ukraine winter crops passed this winter well. The total percentage of areas, which are in poor condition, amounts to 8–10% that is completely normal and is observed every winter,» he said.
more18.03.2013
Ukraine increases rye exports
Rye exports in February 2013 amounted to 740% compared to the same indicator in 2012. This was reported by the Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club". Despite low profitability of rye production in Ukraine, the country is among top-4 world’s producers after the aggregate index of the EU-27, Russia and Belarus.
more18.03.2013
2,500 ha preserved in Ukraine last year
In 2012, Ukraine has preserved 2,500 hectares of land, of which 1,300 hectares through afforestation and 1,200 hectares - meadow lands.
more18.03.2013
Government, traders to prolong grain memo
The Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine and grain traders are planning to prolong the memorandum of understanding on the export of grain for the 2013/2014 marketing year.
more18.03.2013
Agrarians sowed 0.5 mln hectares with winter grain crops
Spring field works are underway in Ukraine. The sowing campaign is going on in 6 regions. Nowadays already over 454 thousand hectares were sown with winter crops. Moreover, targeting to conduct the spring field campaign in optimal agro-technical terms the agriculture producers are supplied 102% with seeds, 109% with fertilizers and 80% with means of protection of plants.
more15.03.2013
Economically justified regulatory monetary value of land not exceeds 15 thousand UAH/ha – UCAB
Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club" (UCAB) calculated economically justified monetary value of agricultural land. The calculations demonstrate that this figure cannot exceed 15 thousand UAH/ha. UCAB says that these relevant calculations were sent to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the State Agency for Land Resources of Ukraine.
more15.03.2013
Serhiy Tymchenko: Minimal term of land lease is envisaged to fix at the level of 7 years
Under conditions of a moratorium or restricted land market an alternative with regards to the development of land relations in Ukraine should become leasing. This was informed on March 14 in his statement for the Fifth annual forum «Agribusiness in Ukraine 2013» by the head of the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Serhiy Tymchenko,Government Portal reports.
more14.03.2013
Almost all winter crops in good state - Azarov
The state of winter grain crops is estimated as good and satisfactory on 91% of sown areas. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said about this at the government meeting on Wednesday.
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