The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting operations of its long-standing client Astarta, one of the largest vertically integrated agro industrial holdings in Ukraine, during the coronavirus pandemic by extending the working capital facility approved in 2018.
A 2-year US$10 million loan to the Ukrainian operator of over 230,000 hectares of arable farm land, sugar plants, a soybean processing factory and dairy farms will help it implement plans related to the introduction of the precision farming.
A security guard stands at the entrance to the State Property Fund (SPF), Ukraine’s privatization agency, in Kyiv, which in July announced a tender to auction off a lucrative locomotive plant, Luhanskteplovoz. The tender was scheduled to take place on Oct. 3, with major Russian and Ukrainian industrial bidders taking part, but was cancelled by the SPF on the same day, following numerous lawsuits filed with Ukrainian courts and controversial cabinet statements.
The drought in major corn-growing regions continued intensifying in the latter half of August, and later varieties in the north of the country were affected as well.
Therefore, UkrAgroConsult reduces its forecast for Ukraine’s corn crop at the expense of a yield decrease.
New Year’s holidays are not over, but farmers are again on the streets of Kiev with pickets – “Against the sale of land”. It seems that consensus will be very difficult, and somebody will outweigh in the issue of launching the market or the circulation of agricultural land. Sociology on the subject is changing as well in turbo mode!
Today, five shipbuilding orders are in their different construction stages at NIBULON’s shipyard.
On September 20, during the international TRANS EXPO ODESA MYKOLAIV 2019 Forum, NIBULON put into operation its 140-m NIBULON MAX floating vessel.
NIBULON’s newly-built Ternivska branch in Vilniansk district (Zaporizhzhia region), which was officially inaugurated on July 2, celebrates two months of operation.
1. Are Ukraine’s policies effective in supporting farmers to deal with climate change?