Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada sets tariffs for heat generated using biofuel at the level of 90% of the tariffs for heat generated burning gas.
According to preliminary information from market participants, Ukrainian traders exported roughly 30 MMT of grain in the first eight months of the season (July-February).
Ukraine in January and February 2017 exported 31,730 tonnes of poultry, and this was 45.4% more than a year ago, the State Fiscal Service has reported.
Ukraine since the beginning of the 2016/2017 marketing year (MY, July-June) and as of March 7, 2017 had exported 29.91 million tonnes of grain.
The growth of soybeans production allows to Ukraine to increase the oilseed processing volumes, and in the season-2016/17 the index will reach nearly 1 mln tonnes, declared the Deputy Commercial Director on sales of oilseed crops and by-products at the agri-industrial holding Astarta-Kyiv, Ostap Palchevsky.
As of May 30, Ukrainian agrarians planted sunflower seed throughout the areas of 5.21 mln ha, or 99.6% of the plan, as opposed to 4.59 mln ha on the same date last year, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
In the current year the agricultural holding UkrLandFarming plans to make its first supplies of maize to China at the level of nearly 750 thsd tonnes, declared Igor Petrashko, Deputy General Director of the company.He noted that China continues increasing the consumption of meat, so maize in the country is mainly used for feed consumption for further chicken, pork and beef production.
In October 2013 Ukraine will reach the maximum rates of grain shipments per month - over 3 mln tonnes, which allows to the country to supply the planned volumes of 30 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets until the end of 2013/14 MY, announced Nikolai Prysiazhniuk, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
He said, since the beginning of July 2013 agrarians already supplied 8.9 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets, up nearly 8% compared with the last year index for the same period.
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The customs duties on grain exports present a serious risk to the economy of the country and the balance of payments, declared Petr Poroshenko, Head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, on October 5.
P.Poroshenko stressed that to date the current account deficit and the risk of deficit of the balance of payments are the key risks for the country.