The free trade agreement between Ukraine and Canada will start working on August 1, 2017; Ukrainian ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko will give a briefing on topical issues prior to this event.
ASTARTA company which is the member of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation initiated harvesting of early grain crops. Harvesting of early grain crops started from Poltava region and will be followed by farm units in Western regions within a week.
Washington, D.C. - Allseeds Group, one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of vegetable oils and meals in Ukraine, has joined the USUBC. The announcement was made today by the USUBC executive committee on behalf of the 200 companies and organizations who are members of USUBC.
“Until now, 18 companies have been licensed to export dairy products to the Chinese market. But our Chinese colleagues added another nine companies to the list, having expanded it to 27 Ukrainian companies,” Ukrainian State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection Chairman Volodymyr Lapa said.
Ukraine is widely regarded as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’. Yet, the government, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, has been cautious to opening up the sale of agricultural farmland to foreign investors.
Nibulon Company has opened a new terminal for grain and oilseeds in the village of Bilenke near Zaporizhzhya, construction of which cost UAH 500 million. The Director General of Nibulon, Olexiy Vadatursky, reported that terminal had been built in 100 days, starting from March 10, while funds for the project were allocated by the European Investment Bank.
Qatar has lifted restrictions on imports of poultry from Ukraine, introduced in the middle of March due to outbreaks of bird flu, according to the website of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumers' Rights Protection.
The Group Allseeds started to implement the second stage of its global development in Yuzhny port, the construction of a multifunctional soybean crushing plant, with a daily production capacity of 5,000 tons. This plant will be unique in capacity among the European oil extraction plants.