After Ukraine becomes the associate member of the European Union, the country will be able to bring the EU to the position of the world leader on grain exports, declared Leonid Kozachenko, President of UAC. According to him, the association of Ukraine with the EU will lead to some redistribution of roles on the world grain market, and changing of the world ratings of international grain suppliers.
The company was visited by managers of Asian companies and holdings interested in corn export performed by NIBULON. At the end of October NIBULON was visited by the managers of Asian companies and holdings, importers of Ukrainian agricultural commodities.
Ukraine has advanced on the way of improving its business environment, which was reflected in the World Bank's report Doing Business 2014, but the country still have to settle many problems to achieve further progress.
In October 2013 Ukraine will reach the maximum rates of grain shipments per month - over 3 mln tonnes, which allows to the country to supply the planned volumes of 30 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets until the end of 2013/14 MY, announced Nikolai Prysiazhniuk, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
He said, since the beginning of July 2013 agrarians already supplied 8.9 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets, up nearly 8% compared with the last year index for the same period.
An Association Agreement between the E.U. and Ukraine will mean millions of dollars in agricultural exports for Ukraine, according to Ukraine Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhniuk.
In the coming years Ukraine is quite capable to firmly occupy the second position in the world rating of countries-exporters of grains in terms of export volumes, declared Leonid Kozachenko, President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, at the IV Ukrainian Grain Congress in Kiev.
The possible foundation of the Black Sea grain pool by Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan, which includes a the state monopoly on grain exports, may result in significant losses of grain traders operating in Ukraine, declared Leonid Kozachenko, President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, on October 16.
AgroGeneration's Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting was held on 11 October 2013. All the resolutions submitted, strictly related to the merger, were passed by a very large majority. Only the resolution related to the increase of capital reserved to employees has been rejected*.
One of the largest agricultural holdings in Ukraine HarvEast Holding, which is owned by SCM and "Smart-Holding", in the medium - term plans to increase its land bank to 500 thousand hectares instead of 197 thousand hectares, cultivated by today, according to the press service of the "Smart-Holding".
The enactment of long-awaited laws to permit the selling of agricultural land was touted as key to President Viktor Yanukovych's agenda. But, after more than two years in power, the effort has stalled. Long-awaited changes were supposed to be adopted by parliament in 2011 to create an agricultural land market, stripping Ukraine of another of its socialistic Soviet vestiges.