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ASTARTA’s farming units started the new spring planting season.
The Company’s main crops are sugar beet (33.5kha), corn (59.9kha), soybeans (31.2kha), wheat (46.5kha), sunflower (28.1kha) and winter rapeseeds (7.2kha).
ASTARTA is also growing a mix of organic crops on 1.8kha.
ASTARTA is fully prepared for the new planting season 2021 and has a full stock of seeds, crop protection means, fertilizers. The Company uses both imported and domestic inputs. The key selection criteria are quality and support for local producers. Wheat and soybeans’ seeds are produced in-house under the brand ASTARTA Select.
The new John Deere tractors, purchased in 2020-2021 within the five-year investment programme aimed at upgrading its agricultural machinery, are already involved in the current planting.
The staff has been trained. All operations are performed with strict quarantine regulations and requirements.
Despite the later start of the planting due to colder weather conditions, all production operations will be performed within the required timeline.
The state-owned enterprise Artyomsol (Donetsk region) in January-March 2021 increased its net profit 5-fold compared to January-March 2020, to UAH 10.1 million, the enterprise has said on its website on Tuesday.
The net income of the enterprise for the first quarter of 2021 increased almost 1.5-fold compared to the same period in 2020, to UAH 437.5 million.
The growth of financial and economic indicators is explained by the increase in production volumes: in the first quarter, production increased 2.5-fold, to 503,300 tonnes.
The plans for 2021 are to invest UAH 250 million in replacing outdated filling equipment, and to update the range of products.
Artyomsol is one of the largest enterprises for the extraction and sale of sodium chloride (NaCl) in Central and Eastern Europe. The production facilities of Artyomsol are located in Soledar, Donetsk region.
Ukrainian transport companies carried 624 million passengers in January-March 2021, which is 30.5% less than in the first quarter of 2020, the State Statistics Service reported.
The passenger turnover of transport enterprises in the specified period amounted to 12.3 billion passenger-kilometers, which is 35.3% less than in January-March last year.
According to the State Statistics Service, 17 million passengers used railway transport in the first quarter of 2021 (including city commuter trains), which is 39.3% less than in the same period in 2020, and 258.7 million passengers used road transport (less by 32.6%).
Air transport reduced passenger traffic by 44.2%, to 1.1 million people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, in the first quarter of 2021, some 92.4 million passengers used trams (less by 32.6% versus January-March 2020), metro carried 112.8 million people (less by 19%), trolleybuses some 142 million people (less by 31.5%).
Ukraine has signed a contract with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer to supply an additional 10 million doses against coronavirus disease, Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has told President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
“After lengthy and difficult negotiations with Pfizer, we have reached an agreement on the supply of an additional 10 million doses. We signed the contract this night. That is, in total, we will receive 20 million doses of Pfizer vaccine during this calendar year,” Stepanov said.
The press service of the head of state said that according to the agreements, Ukraine will receive the first 500,000 doses under this contract in May-June 2021, 4.5 million doses in the third quarter (July-September), and the remaining 15 million doses in the fourth quarter of this year.
The conclusion of the agreement was made possible thanks to Zelensky’s direct communication with Pfizer CEO Albert Burla. The president personally coordinated the process of negotiations on the supply of the drug to Ukraine, because today the demand for vaccines in the world significantly exceeds production. Therefore, the Ukrainian government used various tools to provide the country with a high-quality vaccine. In particular, the strategic communications of the President and the constant operational communications of the Ministry of Health made it possible to sign a contract and receive a high-quality vaccine in Ukraine in significant volumes.
Zelensky thanked the CEO of Pfizer for helping Ukraine during the difficult times of the pandemic and noted the efforts of the representatives of Ukraine who accompanied the signing of the contract.
“This is a truly remarkable result. Now the task of the state is to ensure vaccination of the maximum number of citizens. It is also necessary to more actively explain to people the importance of vaccination against COVID-19, because this is the only way to overcome the pandemic, return to normal life and forget about quarantines forever,” the president said.
