News From Agro-Industrial Complex

In the eleven months of 2022, there was an increase in the export volume of onion from Poland. In accordance with the Ministry of Finance preliminary data, from January to November 2022, 189 thousand tonnes of onion were exported from Poland, by 42% more than in the comparable period of 2021, mainly as a result of a significant (24-fold) increase in the export of onion to Ukraine (54 thousand tonnes, 28% of the export volume).

The list of the Government’s priority issues today includes rapid recovery and its financing. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a speech at an expanded meeting of the Presidium of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine, held on February 22 under the chairmanship of Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak. The Head of Government took part in the meeting online during a working visit to Lviv region.

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention of Ukraine (NACP) put Auchan French retail group on the list of international sponsors of war.

“The reason is that during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the company refused to boycott the terrorist state and did not close its business in the Russian Federation,” NACP posted on Telegram.

Gilles Mettetal, a member of the Board of Directors of Astarta, became a speaker of the webinar “Agricultural Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: Building the Ukrainian Story”, organized as part of the Chapter Zero Ukraine and Caucasus initiative and dedicated to ESG investing in agriculture.