Agrarian news
09.08.2016

Borsch basket’s price lowered by 16%
Cabbage, onion, beet, carrot and potatoes’ prices have decreased by 16% in average from early August to 13.98 UAH of borsch basket index value.
more08.08.2016

Palm oil import has increased, pork & cattle meat’s export has declined
Due to Ukraine’s State Fiscal Services’ information, agro products’ export has increased by 2.6% to 7.8 B USD and import – 10% to 2.2 B USD during first seven months of 2016 in comparison to the same period in 2015.
more04.08.2016

UA agro public companies’ market cap has improved markedly
Listed abroad agro holdings have demonstrated positive market capitalization move. Thus, MC has reached USD 3.05 B on August 1st, 2016 being 9.6% extra comparing to early July (+USD 268.4 M). In reporting year capitalization has reached maximum.
more02.08.2016

Peas record yields expected in Ukraine
752 k tons – projected yield of peas in 2016 doubling the result of preceding year. Yielding rate’s rise caused by an increase of sowing areas by 42% and notable yielding rates in 3.16 tons per ha comparing to 2.14 tons in previous year.
more27.07.2016

Ukraine actively uses EU’s non-tariff quota for barley export
In framework of the DCFTA, 79.3% of barley export quota were used on July 27 of 2016, along with overall fulfilled volumes in the beginning of the month at 30.7% level. In overall, 198.1 out of 250 k tons of barley were exported due to the FTA.
more25.07.2016
23% growth of wages in agriculture
Due to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, in first five months of 2015 average salary in agriculture has reached 3445 UAH which is 23% extra comparing to preceding years. At the same time, level of wages in agriculture is 26% less than average wage in Ukraine being one of the lowest within all the industries. Lowest level of wages was noted within medicine, culture and education industries.
more21.07.2016

Lowest rapeseed sowing areas in the decade
Statistics Service of Ukraine has published a report with lowest estimation of rapeseed sowing areas level in the decade, particularly 456 k ha.
more20.07.2016

Shadow economy in agriculture has decreased by 6%
Based on published research of the Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine, in 2015 level of shadow economy in agriculture has reached 8% which is 6% less than previous indication.
more20.07.2016

Share of employed citizens in agriculture has increased to 17.5%
According to information of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine published on July 15, 2016, share of employed individuals in agriculture has increased to 17.5% in 2015. From 2010 to 2015, the share has increased by 2.1%, but absolute amount of employees has decreased from 20.3 to 16.4 M during the same time period.
more18.07.2016

Agriculture machineries’ import has doubled
During 6 months of 2016 Ukrainian business entities have imported agro machineries valued at 233 M USD, along with tillage machineries for 123 M USD exciding same indicators of preceding year in 2.7 and 2 times accordingly.
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