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Ukraine threshes over 460,000 tons of grain - 27.06.2010

Ukraine has harvested 468,000 tons of grain at the area of almost 184,000 hectares of the planned 12,045 million hectares. The average yield of early grain crops is 25.6 centner/ha. In particular, at that date the country milled 2.42... Ukraine : Ukraine expects loans from World Bank to stabilize finances - vice-premier - 23.06.2010

Ukraine expects to receive loans from the World Bank to cut its budget deficit and stabilize finances, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Tigipko told the BBC Ukrainian Service on Sunday. Ukraine: Ag Ministry proposes to change its approach to distributing agricultural subsidies - 23.06.2010

According to the Minister, the way agricultural subsidies and loans are distributed will change.The Cabinet of Ministers is going to cancel the subsidies and interest rate compensations. Instead, it will introduce a system of lending through the Agrarian Fund and UkrTransLeasing, which will receive 50% government agricultural support funds. Ukraine: Viktor Slauta suggests raising prices for export grain - 23.06.2010

Ukraine’s Vice-Premier Viktor Slauta said this at a briefing for the Odesa media. According to him, a major task of the Ukrainian agro-industrial sector is ensuring a high price for export grain. However, as he noted, certain fears arise about this because ample grain stocks from the previous harvests remain in the world market. Ukraine. Yield slightly exceeds previous year rate - 23.06.2010

For today, the yield of grain crops, barley and wheat, harvesting of which has already started in Ukraine, slightly exceeds the previous year level, Vice Premier on Agrarian Policy Viktor Slauta has said. WTO against US poultry ban - 23.06.2010

China appears to have «notched up a victory» in a dispute against the US over the latter’s ban on poultry imports, according to an interim report by the World Trade Organization (WTO). «We think the US will not try to impose a similar ban in the next fiscal year, since it would be regarded as open defiance of the latest WTO ruling,» a Ministry of Commerce official, who declined to be named, reports state, adding that Beijing had received the WTO report. Agrarians Jan-May milk/dairy products sales up 1.5%, to 791,250 MT - 23.06.2010

    As to State Statistics Committee report, in Jan-May 2010 agricultural companies have grown milk/dairy products sales to 791,250 MT, up 11,577 MT (+ 1.5%) as of Jan-May 2009. As for Jan-May... IFC Invests in Meat Producer Globino to Help Generate Jobs in Ukraine - 22.06.2010

Kiev, Ukraine, June 22, 2010—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will invest in meat producer Globino to help increase production capacity, modernize equipment, and create about 600 jobs in central Ukraine’s Poltava Region. Share of 10 largest agrarian companies in grain production has reached 13.5 % - 21.06.2010

In total volume of grain produced by agricultural enterprises in 2009 the share of 10 largest companies has reached 13.5 %. It was announced by Ukrainian agribusiness club (UCAB). Ukraine: Crimea harvested 1.5 thsd ha of winter barley - 20.06.2010

As of June 15, 2010, agrarians of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) harvested winter barley throughout 1.5 thsd ha and produced 3.7 thsd tonnes of the grain, announced Nikolay Polyushkin, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine forecasts the present year harvest at the level of 2009 results - 20.06.2010

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine forecasts the present year grain production reaching the previous year harvest results, declared Eugene Lavrov, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, on June 16. 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