In February, only 71 vessels were inspected at the entrance to the ports of Odesa for loading Ukrainian agricultural products by the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul (JCC). This is 17 vessels less than in January.
Such negative dynamics are a consequence of Russia's systemic destructive policy, which purposefully and unreasonably slows down ship inspections in Turkish territorial waters.
Ukraine and Latvia are working to further develop and strengthen trade and economic relations. During the meeting between Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Prime Minister of Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš, the parties agreed to continue the work of the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Latvian Commission on Economic, Industrial, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. The ninth meeting of the Commission will be held in the near future.
As Denys Shmyhal noted at the joint briefing following the meeting, Ukraine was interested in implementing the logistics routes development project both within the Commission and at the high political level.
Ukraine imported 220,000 tonnes of fruits from Turkey in 2022, the largest figure among other countries supplying these products.
That's according to Bohdan Dukhnytskyi, a senior researcher at the Department of Agricultural Production Economics and International Integration of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics".
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, held talks with Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, and Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Representative and Country Director for Ukraine.
The meeting concerned the development of Ukraine's agricultural sector, plans to support small agricultural producers and projects to demine areas for growing grain crops.
Actively insuring war risks is a key issue for trade, investment, and recovery projects. Ukraine cannot wait until the war is over to return to business projects, so we are testing war risk insurance products from MIGA and other global players. This was emphasized by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, during a series of meetings with Jessika Roswall, Minister for EU Affairs of Sweden, and Johan Pehrson, Minister for Employment and Integration of Sweden.
A trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the European Commission, and Romania was held with the support of the European Union. The talks focused on coordinating efforts to improve and develop export capacities through the Ukrainian and Romanian channels of the Danube river.
Yesterday, March 8, the leadership of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine met with a delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The parties discussed the current situation in Ukraine's agricultural sector and its priority needs. They focused on the need to ensure liquidity of the agricultural market, implementation of an irrigation reform and solving the problem of demining of agricultural land.
Australia is expected to report record-breaking agricultural exports in the current financial year, the government said on Tuesday, after years of high rainfall boosted yields.
The Minister of Entrepreneurship and National Production of Italy, Adolfo Urso, emphasizes the importance of developing Ukraine’s transport corridor with northern Italian cities to contribute to the recovery of the country’s war-torn economy.
That’s according to Italian mass media, Ukrinform reports.
Yesterday, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced three new partnerships to help Ukraine overcome immediate and long-term export logistics challenges caused by Russia’s full-scale war. USAID, Grain Alliance, Kernel, and Nibulon plan to make combined investments of more than $44 million to support storage and infrastructure expansion in Ukraine’s agriculture sector. The investments are projected to increase Ukraine’s grain shipping capacity by more than 3.35 million tons annually, bolstering Ukraine’s economy and bringing much-needed grain to the global market.