Agrarian news
26.06.2013
Soybean output 20 times up in 12 years - producers association
Soybean production in the period of 2001-2012 increased by 20 times. If the gross harvest of oilseeds in 2001 amounted to 120 thousand tons, in 2012 it was 2.4 million tons.
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EBRD may slash financing for Ukrainian projects 30% in 2013 over poor investment climate
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may provide Ukraine only about 70% of the annual financing total if the country does not improve the investment climate, EBRD Director for Local Currency and Capital Markets Development Andre Kuusvek told journalists on Wednesday. If conditions improve, financing might reach the level of past years, or about 1 billion euro, he said.
more20.06.2013
Minister: Every 11th ton of grain in the world is from Ukraine
In 2012, every 11th ton of grain in the world was from Ukraine, agrarian policy and food minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk told a briefing.
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Ukraine harvests almost 300,000 t of grain as of June 19
Early grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine have been harvested from 125,000 hectares, and almost 300,000 tonnes of grain has been threshed, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Mykola Prysiazhniuk has said.
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KSG AGRO imports 1,467 hogs from Denmark
The Niva Trudova farm in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region received 1,467 hogs from the Danish company Breeders of Denmark. Following this delivery, the number of hogs on the farm has increased to a total of approx 3,000 sows and boars.
more19.06.2013
Ukrainian State Food-Grain Corporation and СМСЕС (CHINA) sign contract worth $300 million
Public joint-stock company State Food-Grain Corporation of Ukraine and China National Machinery Industry Complete Engineering Corporation (CMCEC) have signed a contract on imports of products and services from China to Ukraine worth $300 million.
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EBRD to finance largest biogas grid-connected project in Ukraine
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is organizing a financing facility of up to EUR 4.2 million to construct and put into operation a 1.5MW biogas plant at the privately owned agribusiness company Ecoprod, located in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine.
more19.06.2013
Yanukovych: Ukraine and Belarus agree on common actions in trade-economic sphere
Yesterday President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko discussed a wide spectrum of bilateral relations’ issues and determined prospects of cooperation, President Viktor Yanukovych Press Office reports. Viktor Yanukovych informed that the parties had discussed primarily trade-economic cooperation.
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Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia ready to see Ukraine member of the Single Economic Space
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia are ready to see Ukraine a member of the Single Economic Space (SES), Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko said during a yesterday meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, Belarus Radio reports.
more18.06.2013
Wheat harvest in Ukraine to be around 20 m t in 2013, says weather center
Ukraine in 2013 could harvest around 20 million tonnes of wheat compared to 15.76 million tonnes threshed in 2012, the head of the agro-meteorological department of the Ukrainian Weather Center, Tetiana Adamenko, has said.
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