The Cabinet of Ministers has amended the procedure for providing grants for the establishment of horticulture, berry and viticulture, as well as the development of greenhouse farming, which are aimed at the recovery of the grape and wine industry, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.
“Viticulture is a key industry that is now in stagnation. Therefore, realizing these conditions, we have updated the grant procedure. The changes will help winemakers integrate into the grape vertical. They will be able to use the grants to plant their own vineyards. We have also eliminated the mandatory requirement to install irrigation systems and water intake for grapes,” – commented on the Government Resolution No. 871 adopted by the Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotskyi.
According to his information, the order of granting grants for the establishment of horticulture, berry growing and viticulture presents an expanded list of regions for growing stone fruit species. The total area for planting peach, apricot, sea buckthorn, raspberry, currant, gooseberry, blackberry, currant has been increased at the expense of reducing the total area of planting under pigeonpea and blueberry. The document also clarifies the period during which a garden grant recipient is required to create an appropriate number of seasonal jobs. In addition, the requirement to install an irrigation system and water intake for grapes has been eliminated.
The decree expands the range of potential recipients of grants for orchards and greenhouses. They can be agrarians who are located and carry out economic activities in the territories of active hostilities, where the state electronic information resources are functioning, produce (without adding alcohol) and / or sale of wine grapes, fruit and berry, honey drinks.
The decree shall come into force from the date of its publication.
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In the first half of 2024, 87,655 children were born in Ukraine, which is 9% less than in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. At the same time, 250,972 deaths were recorded. The largest number of babies and deaths in Ukraine were in Dnipropetrovs’k and Kyiv regions.
The birth rate decreased by 1.5 times this year compared to the period before the full-scale invasion: 87,655 children compared to 132,595 in 2021.
The highest number of newborns was registered in Kyiv – 9,695 children, 7,923 in Lviv region, and 6,962 in Dnipro region. The number of babies born in the frontline regions is consistently low: in Kherson (221) and Donetsk (702). In the Luhansk region, no babies were registered in the last six months.
Currently, there are three deaths for every newborn citizen. This ratio is one of the key indicators of the demographic crisis. For comparison, in the pre-civil war period, there were two deaths per child in 2018-2020.
250,972 people died in Ukraine in the first six months of 2024. This is 1.4 times less than in the same period in 2021, when 349,041 deaths were recorded. However, it is worth noting that 2021 was the peak year for deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lowest number of deaths occurred in the frontline Kherson (2334) and Donetsk (5753) regions and in Chernivtsi (5422). Anti-record numbers were set in Dnipropetrovs’k region (26,374), Kharkiv region (17,999), and Kyiv (17,449).
https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/birth-death-2024-6
Average price per hectare of land in 2023, UAH
Source: Open4Business.com.ua
Turkey has ratified a free trade agreement with Ukraine, Anadolu quoted the country’s official newspaper as saying on Friday.
The agreement was signed on Feb. 3, 2022, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved the deal and its annexes on Thursday.
Turkey-Ukraine bilateral trade volume in 2023 totaled $7.3 billion, Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said Thursday after meeting with Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.
According to him, the trade volume is expected to increase to $10 billion within a short period of time under the said agreement.
The main areas of trade between the two countries are ferrous metallurgy, machine building, energy, automobile and grain.
PJSC “Grave Ukraine Life Insurance” (Kiev) has increased its authorized capital from UAH 26.903 million to UAH 81.571 million, the company was notified by the Central Depository of Ukraine on July 31, according to the information posted in the system of NCSSM.
The increase of the authorized capital by UAH 54.668 mln was made at the expense of a part of the profit received by the company.
The decision on the issue was made at the shareholders’ meeting on April 15, 2024.
PJSC Grave Ukraine Life Insurance and PJSC IC Grave Ukraine are part of NFG Grave Ukraine, the ultimate beneficiary of which is GRAWE-Vermögensverwaltung (Austria).
On August 1, the state enterprise “International Airport “Boryspil” (Kiev) announced a tender for the purchase of voluntary insurance of motor vehicles (hull insurance), according to the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
The expected cost of purchase of services is UAH 44.6 thousand. Security of the tender offer is not required.
The deadline for submission of bids is August 9.
