On January 30, 2026, Grain Storage Forum will be held – the largest forum in Ukraine in the fields of growing, storage, processing, logistics and trading of agricultural products.
The objectives of the forum are to analyze the current situation, identify the main problems, search for and develop solutions to ensure stable operation and increase the efficiency of agricultural production, processing, and logistics of agricultural products in wartime.
Venue: 16a Parkova Road, Kyiv, CEC “Parkovy”.
For whom the event is intended: crop producers, elevators, processors, logistics, traders and all companies providing the relevant industries with equipment, technologies and services.
Number of participants: 1200+ specialists of the agricultural sector
The forum will include:
– Conferences on the following topics:
– “Trends in agricultural production”
– “Grain storage”
– Processing of grains and oilseeds
– “Trading and logistics”
– Presentation seminars from market leaders
– Speeches by leading industry experts with cases of effective agribusiness, government officials and experts
– Exhibition of technological solutions and equipment from leading manufacturers
– Live music, lounge area
– Coffee breaks and receptions
For more information, please visit the official website: https://grain-storage-forum.com
For partnership and participation in the exhibition, please contact the organizers:
+38 096 899 4272 | +38 067 243 3803 | proagro-inform@ukr.net
Ukraine ranked 9th among the countries whose citizens most often came to Georgia in 2025 – 136,826 visits (an increase of 15.4% to 2024), follows from the data of the National Tourism Administration of Georgia.
In total, Georgia recorded 6,856,809 international visits in 2025 (plus 6.2% to 2024). The leader was Russia with 1,579,764 visits, or about 23% of the total (plus 11.1%).
Turkey, Armenia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, India and China were also in the top 10 source countries of tourist flow (international visits).
Albania’s dependence on grain imports has increased in 2025 amid a decline in domestic production and an increase in abandoned farmland, with Serbia becoming the main supplier of grain, the Serbian Economist reports, according to Pamfleti website.
Albania imported more than 374,000 tons of grain in 2025, almost 40,000 tons more than in 2024, with wheat and corn being the main imports.
Agro-economist Zef Gjeta linked the increase in imports to the lack of real reforms and public funding of the agro-sector, emphasizing that without support for farmers, the country loses its production potential and becomes more dependent on external supplies.
The structure of supplies has changed – Serbia has become the first exporter of grain to Albania, while previously significant volumes came from Russia and Romania. At the same time, procurement costs, according to the source’s assessment, remained close to 2024 levels due to shorter logistics and the strengthening of Albania’s national currency, despite the increase in physical volumes.
Albania also exported 248 tons of grain worth about 28 million lek, almost double the amount from a year earlier, but these volumes remain small. The country’s farmland area is estimated at about 700,000 hectares, with the area under cereal crops shrinking and the area of abandoned land growing, experts warned.
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In Ukraine in 2025, 168,778 births and 485,296 deaths were registered, so there were about three deaths per newborn, according to an analysis by OpenDataBot based on data from the Ministry of Justice.
Compared to 2024, the country’s death rate fell by 2%, while the birth rate fell by 4.5%. At the same time, the decline in birth rate is slowing down after a sharp drop in 2022, but there are about 1.6 times fewer children being born compared to 2021.
In terms of regions, birth rate growth was recorded in Lviv region (+1.5%, or 230 more children) and Volyn region (+0.6%, or +44 children), while the most noticeable drop, except for the territories of active hostilities, was observed in the frontline regions – in Kherson region (-16%) and Zaporizhzhya region (-11%), as well as a 9% decrease in the number of births in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Chernivtsi regions.
The most children were traditionally born in Kyiv – 19,410 (11.5% of the total number), followed by Lviv region – 15,872 and Dnipropetrovsk region – 12,754. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (52,559), Kyiv (36,296) and Kharkiv Oblast (34,670) lead in the number of deaths.
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The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine recorded more than 37 million border crossings in 2025. The number of entries and exits is almost equal: 18.4 million times versus 18.7 million. During the year, 290,300 Ukrainians traveled abroad and never returned. This is 1.5 times less than in 2024. In total, 3.1 million citizens have officially left Ukraine over the 4 years of full-scale migration. Of these, 72% left in the first year of the great war.
37,088,261 official border crossings were recorded in Ukraine in 2025. People entered Ukraine 18.4 million times and left it 18.7 million times.
86% of crossings were made by citizens. In general, Ukrainians traveled more often: last year, the border was crossed about 2.7 million times per month. For comparison, in previous years, the figure was lower and remained at 2.5 million.
Despite the fact that the number of border crossings is increasing year by year, the number of conditional non-returns – that is, the difference between citizens who left and those who returned – is gradually decreasing. During the year, 16.1 million Ukrainians left Ukraine, and 15.8 million returned. The difference is 290 thousand citizens who did not return. This is 1.5 times less than in 2024, when almost 443,000 did not return home.
In total, 3.1 million citizens have officially left the government-controlled territory of Ukraine and have not returned in the four years of full-scale war. 72% of them did so in the first year of the full-scale invasion.
https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/ukrainians-emigration-trend-2025-12
According to the Serbian Economist, Serbia’s preparations for the international specialized exhibition EXPO 2027 in Belgrade are accompanied by discussions about the scale of investments and their comparability with the effect of similar events in the world. The exhibition is scheduled to open on May 15, 2027 and close on August 15, 2027.
Serbian authorities earlier presented the “Leap into the Future – Serbia 2027” program, including 323 projects across the country, the total amount of which was estimated at €17.8 billion, with Finance Minister Sinisa Mali emphasizing that the direct costs of the exhibition itself will amount to about €1.2 billion, while the remaining amounts relate to broader infrastructure and development initiatives.
Separately, the EXPO 2027 orgs point out that the “EXPO project cost” in their interpretation is estimated at around €1.29 billion and includes the exhibition site and a number of related facilities and communications (including transport and engineering components), rather than the national investment program as a whole.
In parallel, the project is already reflected in the budget architecture. In the budget for 2026 adopted by Serbia, the Serbian Economist allocates the largest single item of capex for EXPO 2027 – 47.5 billion dinars.
Comparison with the experience of other exhibitions usually shows that direct revenues rarely offset the total bill, and the key is the “legacy” – infrastructure, tourist flows, business connections and reuse of facilities. For example, World Expo 2010 in Shanghai attracted about 73 million visitors and Expo 2015 in Milan about 21.5 million, while Expo 2020 Dubai reported 24.1 million visits. For Belgrade, as a specialized exhibition, the expected scale is lower: the official resource of EXPO 2027 states expectations of “more than 4 million” visitors.
In the Serbian case, the key question is how effectively the costs will be “landed” in the long-term economy: the utilization of the new exhibition infrastructure after August 2027, the impact on tourism and urban development, as well as the ability to contain budget risks and avoid underutilization of facilities.
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