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Ukraine: Crimea to finish the sowing campaign of winter grains till October 25 - 06.10.2009

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) plans to finish the sowing campaign of winter grains for the crop-2010 till October 25, declared the press-cutting service of the Council of Ministries of the Republic. Biscuit-Chocolate to double exports of New Year gift sets to USA - 05.10.2009

The corporation Biscuit-Chocolate has started shipping New Year gift sets of confectionery products to the USA. The first batch totalled nearly five tons (11,000 sets). Gosreserve of Ukraine to sell 1.85 thsd tonnes of grains on October 12 - 05.10.2009

The State committee of Ukraine of governmental material resources (Gosreserve) plan to sell 1858.78 tonnes of grains at an auction on October 12, 2009, according to the announcement of Gosreserve. Applications for participation are accepted till October 9, 2009. Ukraine wheat exports jump - 05.10.2009

Ukraine's wheat exports jumped to 1.832 million tonnes in September from 1.165 million in August and analysts said on Friday the devaluation of the national currency was the main reason for the increase in sales. "A sharp devaluation of the hryvnia makes our grain more favourable for importers," said Serhiy Feofilov, director of UkrAgroConsult agriculture consultancy. Ukrprodukt Group reveals financial results for H1 2009 - 05.10.2009

Ukrprodukt Group, one of the major producers of branded dairy products in Ukraine, has announced its financial results for the first half of 2009, Revenue rose by 8.3% year-over-year, to UAH 252.60mn (EUR 20.99mn USD 30.75mn), EBITDA by 4.6% to UAH 19.06mn. Floor purchase prices of sugar up - 05.10.2009

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has increased the minimal purchase prices of sugar to UAH 3,750 per ton (1 USD - 8.0 UAH). IMF publishes macroeconomic forecast for 2009 agreed with Ukraine - 05.10.2009

The Ukrainian authorities have agreed with the International Monetary Fund its forecast for a fall in GDP in 2009 at 14%, according to the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, which was agreed by Ukraine and the IMF in July and published by the fund on September 8. IMF Forecasts Deeper Contractions in Russia and CIS This Year - 02.10.2009

The International Monetary Fund lowered its economic outlook for Russia and other former Soviet states this year as stimulus measures fail and bank lending is slow to recover. Kazakhstan harvested the record grain crop during recent 5 years - 02.10.2009

According to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, agrarians of the country managed to harvest the excellent grain crops in rather difficult weather conditions of the current year. Grain production volumes in bunker weight totaled nearly 21 mln tonnes, which became the second record harvest during recent five years. Russia saw zero inflation in September - Rosstat - 02.10.2009

Russia on September 22-28 saw a zero inflation rate. Since the beginning of the month it was at the point of freezing as well. Since the beginning of the year it has measured 8.1 percent, Prime-Tass quotes the federal state statistics service (Rosstat) as saying. GDP drops by 17.8% in Q2 2009 - 02.10.2009

According to the State Statistics Committee, in the second quarter of 2009, GDP of Ukraine fell by 17.8% against the same period of 2008, in fixed prices for 2007. Nominal GDP amounted to UAH 207.10bn (EUR 17.04bn USD 24.86bn). Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218