Agrarian news
04.06.2009
Grain exports from Ukraine totaled 23 mln tons
From the beginning of the marketing year, grain exports from Ukraine totaled 23 mln tons, an increase of 6.2 times compared to the index during the whole previous marketing year, declared Julia Timoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, on June 3.
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Ukrainian producers will supply Kazakhstan agrarians with agricultural equipment
Ukraine/Kazakhstan are going to hold talks on Ukrainian agricultural equipment shipments to Kazakhstan, reported Ministry of Agrarian Policy press-service.
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Sunflower sown on 3.8 million hectares
Early grain and leguminous crops were sown in Ukraine on 7.544 million hectares as of June 1, 2009, or 101% of the target.
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Insurance company Star-Polis sets up commercial bank
Kiev-based company Star-Polis specializing in risk insurance is planning to set up a commercial bank.
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Ukraine has first suspected case of H1N1 flu
The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported "with 99 percent certainty" its first case of H1N1 flu in a Ukrainian who had spent two years in the United States, Reuters reported.
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Agrarian Fund to sell 0.5 mn MT grains until this MY end
Agrarian Fund is going to sell 0.5 mn MT grains till this MY end (i.e. till Jul 01/09), reported Fund General Director Volodymyr Ivanyshyn.
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Australia. ABB Grain Receives Clearance From ACCC Over Viterra DEA
ABB Grain Ltd reports that it has received notice from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it does not propose to intervene, pursuant to section 50 of the Trade Practices Act, in the proposed scheme of arrangement with Viterra Inc.
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Ukraine's farming organizations propose re-imposition of 13 percent extra import duty on meat
U krainian public agricultural organizations have called on the government of Ukraine to restore the 13% extra import duty on meat to protect the domestic market, the board chairman of the Union of Poultry Farmers of Ukraine, Oleksandr Bakumenko, has said at a press conference in Kyiv.
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Nearly 90% of winter crops in good condition
The condition of 88.3% of winter crops sown on 8.646 million hectares is good and satisfactory, the Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry has reported.
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Ukraine to spend $1.23 billion to rescue three banks – mass media
Ukraine’s bank recapitalization council approved a 9.4 billion hryvnias ($1.23 billion) bailout of three lenders, Delo newspaper reported, citing a person inside the government with the knowledge of the matter.
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