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.
In 2009, Ukraine harvested over 48.5 mln tonnes of grains as opposed to the previous year volumes of 53.3 mln tonnes, declared Julia Timoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, on December 29. According to her, Ukraine also founded the state food reserve of grains at the volume of nearly 1.41 mln tonnes.
In January-October of 2009, commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 31.65 bln USD, imports – 35.9 bln USD, which totaled 53.5% and 47.6% compared to January-October of 2008 respectively.
Ukraine is likely to export in December no more than 1.5 million metric tons of grain, down from the average 2 million tons a month this marketing year, the Ukrainian Grain Association announced Monday.