In 2016, more than half of Ukraine's grain exports were sent to Asian countries, namely China, India, Indonesia and Thailand. This is reported by the press service of the National Research Center 'Institute of Agrarian Economics' (IAE), citing IAE Deputy Director Mykola Puhachov.
The Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry with the technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is planning to implement a pilot project on voluntary consolidation of agricultural lands belonging to small owners in Kyiv and Kherson regions.
Currently, 277 Ukrainian enterprises have the right to supply their products to the European Union countries. Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi said this during the meeting with EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis within the framework of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, the Government portal reports.
The introduction of antidumping duties imposed on Russian urea and urea-ammonium nitrate (UAN) should be postponed until Ukrainian parliament passes the bill concerning zero nitrogen fertilizers duties for other countries.
Egypt, the world's largest grain importer, is streamlining its import procedures and establishing a registry of companies that will inspect potential purchases abroad, the Trade Ministry said on Friday.
In 2016, exports of sugar amounted to 465.9 thousand tonnes, hitting record figures over the whole history of Ukraine's independence, the press service of the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reports.
Agricultural company Nibulon, which is the member of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, harvested over 340,000 tonnes of agricultural crops in 2016, and this is 10% more than in 2015. According to a posting on the company's website, this is the largest harvest in the history of the company.
The Government of Ukraine plans to carry out a high-quality land reform until 2020. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said this at the Cabinet’s meeting.
The expansion of EU exports quotas for Ukrainian goods is a top priority for the Ukrainian government, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine's Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska has said.
Ukraine and Latvia are interested in intensifying cooperation in the areas of forestry, fisheries, animal husbandry and breeding. This was discussed during the 6th joint meeting of the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Latvian commission for economic, industrial and scientific-technical cooperation, the press service of the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine reports.