Ukraine as of May 21 had sowed spring grains and legumes on 6.9 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said.
According to the report, this figure is 93% of the forecasted areas.
Early spring grain crops were sown on 2.3 million hectares (96%), in particular wheat on 166,000 hectares (95%), barley on 1.5 million hectares (96%), oats on 189,000 hectares (92%), and peas on 416,000 hectares (99%).
Corn for grain was sowed on 4.4 million hectares (95%), buckwheat on 69,000 hectares (46%), and millet on 32,000 hectares (57%).
In addition, the sowing of industrial crops continues. Currently 280,000 hectares have been sown with sugar beets (94% to the forecast), 5.4 million hectares (98%) with sunflower, and 1.6 million hectares (81%) with soybeans.
The construction of a high-speed railway line to Boryspil airport will be completed by December 1, according to the Government Portal website.
“The object will be commissioned by December 1. The construction has started. Now we will finally agree on the type of station,” Acting Chairman of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said during a meeting with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
“It is important to complete the project by December 1 and provide alternative transport to passengers to get to the airport or from the airport through the city and other cities of Ukraine,” Groysman said.
According to the construction project, the line will be built from the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station through the Vydubychi station to Terminal D at Boryspil airport. The estimated travel time is 35 minutes.
The rolling stock to be used on the line is 11 PESA 620m trains for 91 seats and two PESA 630m trains with 192 seats.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) in the first quarter of 2018 received $90 million of net profit, which is 1.6 times more than for the same period in 2017.
According to the holding report on the website of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), its revenue increased by 10%, to $306 million, export revenue was $162 million (53% of the total revenue).
Operating profit decreased by 16%, to $62 million, EBITDA by 4%, to $89 million, gross profit by 6%, to $81 million compared to January-March 2017.
As reported, MHP sold 135,307 tonnes of poultry in January-March 2018, which is 9% more than in the same period of 2017. Export sales of the agricultural holding increased by 28% in the first quarter, to 63,140 tonnes, while the volume of sales in the domestic market fell by 4%, to 72,160 tonnes.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct is the largest poultry producer in Ukraine. It is also engaged in production of grain, sunflower oil, and meat.
The founder and majority shareholder of MHP is Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosiuk.
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Ukraine in January-March 2018 purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $96.409 million, which is 20.6% less than a year ago ($121.458 million).
According to the State Statistics Service, for this period Ukraine purchased Russian fuel for $67 million and that of Swedish production for $28.415 million.
Thus, Ukraine’s purchases of nuclear fuel for the first three months of 2018 from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms accounted for 70.5%, from Westinghouse (Sweden) for 29.5%.
As reported, Ukraine in 2017 purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $533.422 million (from Russia for $368.964 million and Sweden for $164.458 million), in 2016 for $548.81 million (from Russia for $386.782 million, from Sweden – $162.28 million), in 2015 – $643.57 million (from Russia for $610.883 million, Sweden – for $32.688 million), in 2014 – for $628.176 million (from Russia for $588.831 million, Sweden – for $39.345 million), in 2013 – for $600.596 million (all from Russia), in 2012 – for $ 600.334 million (from Russia for $555.355 million, Sweden – for $44.979 million).
The operator of all four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine is the state-owned enterprise National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom, which acquires nuclear fuel under contracts with TVEL (Russia) and Westinghouse Electric Sweden (Sweden).
