As of January 14, winter grains sowings in Ukraine were in good condition throughout 3.94 mln ha, which totaled 46.1% from the general volumes of winter crops sowing areas. Winter grains areas with satisfactory conditions occupied 3.74 mln ha, or 43.9%, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
The government of Ukraine realized special anti-crisis measures for stabilization of the situation in the agro industrial complex of the country, which allowed to provide the positive rates of growth of the agricultural production in 2009, declared Bogdan Danilishyn, the Minister of Economics of Ukraine.
According to preliminary data of the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine, in 2009, the general production volumes of the agricultural industry of all varieties of agrarian economies of Ukraine increased by 0.1%, including agrarian enterprises – reduced by 0.6%, economies of the population – grew by 0.6%, declared the State Committee of Statistics on January 18.
Ukraine harvested 46 million metric tons of grain in clean weight in 2009, which is 14% lower than in 2008, the state statistics committee reported Monday.
In January-November of 2009, commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 35.6 bln USD, imports – 40.4 bln USD, which totaled 56.6% and 50.1% compared to January-November of 2008 respectively.
According to the current data of the polling of agricultural producers of Ukraine concerning their investment plans, realized by APK-Inform two times per year, the majority of agricultural producers of Ukraine does not plan to purchase agricultural technical equipment in the nearest half a year. According to market participants, the limited access to bank credits, and the absence of financial support from the government became the main reason of such decision.
In March-April of 2010, prices for mineral fertilizers on the world markets will grew by 10-15%, then in two months, after the ending of the season of fertilizers introduction, the prices will reduce to the level of 2009, forecasted Alexei Kunchenko, the president of CJSC Severodonetsk association AZOT (Lugansk oblast).
The economic court of Odessa oblast (Ukraine) issued the decree and started the procedure for liquidation of recognition the bankruptcy of Vector Oil Trade Ltd. and Vector Oil Agroinvestments Ltd. (Odessa).
During eleven months of 2009, the volumes of agriculture products output in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) increased by 5.6% compared to the same period of 2008, including plant growing products – by 7.2%.
In 2009, Ukraine exported 24.9 mln tonnes of grains, declared Julia Timoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, on December 29.