Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine to actively apply the best agrarian practices of the USA and European countries

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine considers that establishment of prospective international experience, primarily the US and European ones, is one of the primary objectives to be solved in the Ukrainian agriculture, declared the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Taras Kutovyi. According to him, the first component of the reform should…

Efficiency of the agricultural complex of Ukraine is one of the major priorities for the Cabinet of Ministers

Improving the efficiency of the agricultural sector of Ukraine will be one of the major priorities for new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman. According to him, it is referred to more effective support for small-scale farming enterprises, as well as small and medium-scale agricultural businesses. Special…

Ukraine exported over 33 mln tonnes of grains – Ministry of Agrarian Policy

Since the beginning of 2015/16 MY, and as of April 27, Ukraine exported 33.3 mln tonnes of grains, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. In particular, wheat exports totaled nearly 14 mln tonnes, corn – 15 mln tonnes, and barley – 4.1 mln tonnes. In addition, the export volumes of flour…

Ukraine: Inkerman trade house seeks to almost triple sparkling wine sales in 2016

Inkerman Trade House LLC (Kyiv), a Ukrainian division of Inkerman International, seeks to boost sparkling wine sales by 2.8 times in 2016, to 2.2 million bottles. “We seek to boost production of sparkling wine from 800,000 bottles last year to 2.2 million bottles. We think that these ambitious goals are realizable: demand on our products…

Ukraine: Corn starch production increased by 40%

Corn starch production continues to increase in Ukraine. During first three month of 2016 Ukraine produced 14.36 KMT of corn starch, which is 39% more than over the same period of last year – 10.34 KMT. Along with this corn starch exports increase even faster. Over the first half of the season (October-March) Ukraine exported…

Ukraine: Sunflower oil production lags behind the last season’s pace

In March 2016 large and medium-sized enterprises of Ukraine produced 346 KMT of sunflower oil compared to 339 KMT in Feb-ruary 2016 and 341 KMT in March 2015. Since the beginning of the current season Ukraine produced 2389 KMT of sunflower oil which is 1.8% less than over the same period last season. Estimating the…

Украина: Польские инвестфонды выкупили 3% акций “Астарты”

Польские инвестиционные фонды под управлением Aviva Investors Poland SA сконцентрировали в собственности 3,002% акций Astarta Holding N.V. (Нидерланды) – холдинговой компании группы “Астарта”. Согласно сообщению эмитента на Варшавской фондовой бирже (WSE), в результате сделки 21 апреля количество акций в собственности фондов возросло до 750,383 тыс. шт. В то же время в сообщении не уточняется количество…

Украина предлагает пересмотреть квоты на аграрный экспорт в ЕС

Украина в рамках функционирования углубленной и всеобъемлющей зоны свободной торговли ставит перед партнерами в Евросоюзе вопрос о пересмотре экспортных квот на аграрную продукцию. Об этом сообщила заместитель министра аграрной политики и продовольствия Украины Владислава Рутицкая по итогам первого заседания подкомитета по экономическим и других кластерных вопросов, посвященного сельскому хозяйству, рыболовству, морской политике и развитию сельских…