ASTARTA’s farm units have successfully finished the sowing of spring crops. The total crop area sown in spring is about 170 thousand hectares, including 41 thousand hectares of sugar beet, 41 thousand hectares of sunflower, 67 thousand hectares of corn, 20 thousand hectares of soybean, and the rest under other crops (barley, oats, buckwheat, etc.).
Today the 15th Anniversary International Conference "Black Sea Grain: Moving Up the Value Chain" have started its work in Kyiv. This leading conference of the grain sector of Ukraine and the Black Sea region, organized by the UkrAgroConsult, has gathered more than 700 delegates from 50 countries of the world.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has ordered relevant ministries to develop a resolution on supporting Ukrainian fertilizer producers, in particular on ensuring the provision of Ukrainian agrarians with mineral fertilizers during the spring sowing campaign.
UAC analyzed the results of activity of agrarian enterprises of Ukraine in years 2015 and 2016, based on official statistic data. Partially, efficiency of milk production was considered. The productivity of livestock, cost and profit from milk production in agrarian enterprises of Ukraine as an indicator of economic efficiency in six groups of agrarian enterprises with different land bank have been analyzed.
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.
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.
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.
Agriculture is one of the most powerful branches of the economy of Ukraine. Today almost every second dollar which Ukraine gets due to exports of goods is the money received from selling grains, oil, sugar, poultry and other agrarian commodities. But doing agrarian business in Ukraine is not as simple as it may seem. You should be really smart, persistent and ready for any surprises from the Government, says Leonid Kozachenko, the President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Ukrainian MP.