Astarta strengthened their leading position as the largest Ukrainian sugar producer with 13% share of domestic sugar production in the 2010 production season. Astarta has a major contract to supply sugar to Coca-Cola Ukraine.
Land reform has started up in Ukraine. In the course it provides the creation of special public institution for land management, the ban on land sales to foreigners and legal entities, limitation of the areas one buyer can get. How much will the land cost? What a farmer needs to know to avoid a bad bargain, and when will the sale of land start? Guests of “IZVESTIA” in Ukraine” Press Club were searching for the answers to these questions.
Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has expressed hope that a moratorium on sale and purchase of farmland would be cancelled from January 1,2011. "I'd be glad if free trade is introduced from January 1,2011. Everybody is waiting for the cancellation of the moratorium,starting from farmers and ending with investors," he said in an interview with the Kontrakty weekly published on May 31.
Ukrzernoprom Agro, one of the largest farming companies in Ukraine based in Kyiv, began gathering the 2010 harvest. On June 20 Ukrzernoprom Agro started the harvesting campaign of early grain crops in husbandries of Crimea and Odesa region," the company has announced in a statement. The company says early grain crops and rapeseed acreage for harvesting makes 57,900 hectares.
UkrAgroConsult Analytical Center has developed and is offering a new tool for forecasting capital markets and assessing the value of agricultural companies – Ukrainian agricultural aggregated index-UAIndex.
Ukraine planted spring grains on 7.48 million hectares, or just over 98% of the planned total area, to June 8, the agriculture ministry reported Thursday.
In May 2010, grain export from Ukraine amounted to 850,000 MT or twice as less than in May 2009. In particular, there were exported 230,000 MT of wheat, 340,000 MT barley, and nearly 280,000 MT of corn.
Ukraine planted spring grains on 6.35 million hectares, or 83% of the planned total area, to May 7, the agriculture ministry reported Tuesday.
Ukraine will allow bonds issued to cover value-added tax reimbursements to trade on the secondary market, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tigipko said.
Agro industrial complex of Ukraine is one of the most competitive sectors of Ukrainian economics on foreign markets, declared Vasiliy Tsushko, the Minister of Economics of Ukraine.