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According to the data of Illichevsk sea trading port (Odessa oblast, Ukraine), during August and eight months of 2009, the port fulfilled own cargo shipment plan by 101.8 and 99.2% respectively. In August, the general cargo processing of the port totaled 1.5 mln tonnes, during January-August – 10.94 mln tonnes.

At the press-conference on September 17, 2009, the head of Oblast Land Dapartment Mykola Yanchuk informed about the following: Sale of state-owned land. From the beginning of 2009 there were prepared for the sale 74 land parcels of non-agricultural use with the total area of more than 100 ha and value of UAH 23.5 million (USD 2.94 million). In fact there were sold 92 plots with the total area of 130 ha and aggregate value of UAH 31 million (USD 3.875 million). A share of this sum (10%) went to the State Budget and the rest – into local budgets.

Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, today set out in detail the latest stage of the Commission's ongoing campaign to help European Union dairy farmers out of the current market crisis. The package of measures, presented today to the European Parliament, follows up the Commission's report from July and looks at both short-term measures and actions to secure the longer-term future of the dairy sector. The Commission has already started the process of allowing Member States to pay temporarily aid of up to €15,000 to farmers. It also proposes that the dairy sector should be covered by an emergency clause which already exists for other farm sectors, to allow a quicker response to future market disturbances.

U.S. corn production in 2009 will be stronger than previously because farmers
are getting better yields, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.