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Agro-industrial holding Astarta-Kiev and the European Investment Bank (EIB) today in Brussels signed a loan agreement for EUR 37 million. «These funds are provided under the InnovFin—EU Finance for Innovators program, and will be directed for further implementation of projects on infrastructure modernizat...

In the period of January-October 2017, Ukraine exported 68 thousand heads of cattle, while for the entire 2016 export amounted to 51 thousand heads. Andrey Pankratov, Senior Agricultural Market expert, International Consultant at FAO, noted that if we compare the number of animals that are exported with the number of those...

Chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Bohdan Danylyshyn says that it is expedient to re-launch the State Price Administration with state regulations on food prices to reduce inflation in Ukraine. «Analyzing the consequences of the government's decision to abolish the regulation of food prices, I consider it premature, since in the conditions of Ukra...

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) supports new targets announced today for the use of antibiotics in the farming industry. The targets were revealed by the Targets Task Force set up by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA) to support the farming industry so that...

In 2017, the general production of agricultural goods in Ukraine will reduce by 2.6% compared with the last year level, and total 247.9 bln UAH, declared the Director of the National Scientific Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics”, Academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NAAS), Yuri Lupenko on November 7. According to the expert, the estimations are based on calculations by experts of the Institute of Agrarian Economics, taking into account the current market dynamics. In the current year, the produ...

In the period of nine months of 2017, agri-industrial holding Astarta-Kievincreased dairy farming segment revenue to EUR 23 million (35% higher y-o-y). The company's report states that the increase was driven mainly by higher sales prices on premium quality of produce and market conjuncture. Astarta's dairy farms produced ov...

The MASTER range is expanding KUHN is adding a new model to its range with the 4 to 6-bodied VARI-MASTER L, in order to adapt to the new range of compact 200 to 300 hp tractors. Th...

In Russia in 2017 for the first time there is a growth of production of dairy products. For the period January-September of 2017, there was produced 24.3 million tons of milk. «This is the result of an increase of grant support to farmers engaged in dairy cattle breeding, proper organization of feeding and housing of livestock,...

The export of Ukrainian agrarian and food products to the European Union by the results of January-September of 2017 increased by 39.8% and amounted to US$ 4.18 billion. This is reported by Olga Trofimtseva, Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Deputy Minister for European Integration. "The increase in exports to the EU markets was mainl...

The European and US dairy markets are leading international recovery in milk markets, the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit was told 30th October. The IDF launched the World Dairy Situation Report 2017 at the Summit in Belfast. The report will be available tomorrow (Tuesday 31st October) from IDF website. Véronique Pilet, editor in chi...