Ukraine’s partial accession to Customs Union unrealistic – expert

Ukraine should become a full member of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan), or not enter it at all. The scenario of partial joining is unrealistic. This opinion was expressed in the comments to UKRINFORM by the director of the Ukrainian branch of the Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Vladimir Kornilov.

Estimated monetary value of lands should be speeded up – Tymchenko

Fulfillment of work on the normative monetary value of lands as one of main economic regulators of land relations should be speeded up. Head of the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Serhiy Tymchenko has said about this, the government portal informs. 

Export market of Ukraine – results of the half-season of 2012/13

The beginning of 2012/13 MY for Ukrainian exports market was marked by the major grain prices violent increase. Unlike the beginning of 2011/12-season when the government imposed duties for the grain exports till November 2011, the new MY faced the good trade activity which exceeded by 2.5 times the volumes of the exported grain in […]

Avangard planning to build 30 biogas plants in Ukraine by 2015

Avangard Agro Holding is planning to build 30 biogas plants in 18 Ukrainian regions by 2015, which will annually produce 715 Ml cubic meters of biogas, Avangard spokesman Volodymyr Dmytrenko told the conference “Biogas is a Chance for Energy Independence of Ukraine on the way to European Integration” as quoted by the company’s press service. […]

Agro Holding Sintal Agriculture to get rid of half of its land

Sintal Agriculture, one of Ukraine’s major agro holdings, intends to restructure its land bank. The company said the agro holding is planning to sell or resign 85 Th ha of land in Kherson region in the coming three months. In the opinion of the management, this will allow to annual savings of about USD 7.4 […]

Ukraine harvests 46 million tons of grain from 99% of fields as of Dec. 3

Ukraine as of December 3, 2012 had threshed 45.96 million tonnes of grain from 14.55 million hectares, which is 99% of the fields to be processed, the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported.

Over 1,500 hectares of land sold in Ukraine in 10 months, says land agency

A total of 2,572 plots of land with a total area of 1,511 hectares worth Hr 1.1 billion were sold in Ukraine January through October 2012, the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine said in a press release.