Agrarian news
02.04.2013
Agroliga plans to cut area of fields for 2013 harvest by 9.6%
Agroliga (Kharkiv region) plans to sow 4,350 hectares with spring crops for the 2013 harvest, which is 9.6% down year-over-year, reads a posting on the Agroligas Web site.
more28.03.2013
Azarov: Ukraine begins importing gas through Hungary
Ukraine has begun importing gas from Europe through Hungary, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a news conference with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Budapest on Thursday.
more26.03.2013
Domestic crop production needs some UAH 150 bln in investment
The amount of financing, calculated for field work, does not take into account the capital investment required for the technical and technological re-equipment of production, analysts with the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UAC) said at a news conference.
more26.03.2013
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.
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
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
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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