According to the decision of the Kyiv Pechersk district court on September 29 this year, arrest on the accounts of subsidiaries of the company, which were blocked in the proceedings initiated by the General Prosecutor's Office - was removed.
Ukrainian agrarians threshed 38.5 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops from 10 million hectares (69% of the target) as of September 18, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's press service.
Ukraine might lose its second largest wheat export market, Egypt, due to new wheat import requirements that favour rival Russia, Ukraine's acting agriculture minister Maksym Martyniuk said.
ASTARTA company which is the member of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation begins its 2017/18 sugar production campaign. Zhdanivsky and Narkevychi sugar plants have started new sugar production campaign. Zhdanivsky sugar plant has already reached its planned production capacity and produced its first batch of sugar compliant with EU standards. The rest six sugar plants of ASTARTA will be launched this month.
Since the beginning of 2017/18 MY, and as of August 10, Ukraine exported 3.947 mln tonnes of grains, reported the phytosanitary security and seed farming control department at the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP).
In particular, Ukraine supplied almost 1.6 mln tonnes of wheat on foreign markets, including 0.739 mln tonnes of milling wheat and 0.844 mln tonnes of feed wheat, as well as 1.374 mln tonnes of barley, and 0.949 mln tonnes of corn.
The export of Ukrainian products to the European countries increased by 31.4% in January-June 2017 or by 663.4 million of dollars in comparison with the same period of time of the previous year and equaled 2.7 billion of dollars. The Deputy of the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Olga Trophimtseva stated such figures as the press service of the ministry reported.
The experts of USAID’s Agriculture and Rural Development Support Program for Ukraine have elaborated the concept of a roadmap to adjust processing and distributing of agricultural products produced in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and adjacent areas of Zaporizhzhia region.
In January-June 2017, foreign trade turnover of Ukrainian agrarian products reached $10,903.1 million, which is 25.2% of country's total foreign trade turnover, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reports.