The Chumak PJSC intends to build a plant for processing tomatoes into paste in Odessa Region, as the company considers this region to be the most favorable in terms of climatic conditions, the director of the department of agrarian policy, food and land relations of the Odessa OVA, Alla Stoyanova, has said on Facebook.
The official recalled that Ukraine covers its domestic needs in vegetables at the expense of imports. According to Stoyanova, in Odessa region in 2023, the sown area of vegetable crops is 1489 hectares, of which 476.6 hectares are allocated for tomatoes, 307.1 hectares – onions, 95.11 hectares – carrots, 81.87 hectares – cabbage, 22.75 hectares – cucumbers, 434.44 – other vegetable crops.
The Director of the Department also informed that relocation of production facilities of Chumak PJSC to Odessa region will be a significant support for agro-industrial complex of the region and will create almost 5000 additional jobs.
The director of “Evrika” LLC Mikhail Bely suggested “systematic and balanced approach to the issue of product logistics”, which will facilitate the delivery of products to farmers for processing and will help the company “Chumak”.
Farmers present at the meeting expressed their willingness to expand production areas under tomato production.
“Vegetable farming is a high-cost business. It depends on irrigation and acquisition of specialized machinery, because farmers massively complain about the shortage of workers. In addition to investments in mechanization of production, attention should also be paid to storage and processing of products. We have a huge potential – natural, logistical (…), human”, summarized Stoyanova.
Prometey Group has continued cooperation with Vostok Bank (Kyiv) and MTB Bank (Odesa), which have each allocated UAH 60 million to replenish working capital and implement targeted programs of the group’s production companies, the group’s press service said.
“Since the beginning of the war, these banks were the first to provide financial support to Ukrainian agricultural producers, including our group. We highly appreciate the trust placed in us in the face of a full-scale invasion and economic uncertainty that the agricultural sector faced in February 2022. The new financing will be a good help for our farmers during the harvest season,” Natalia Dudnikova, Deputy Head of Corporate Finance at Prometey, commented on cooperation with banks, as quoted by the press service.
Prometey Group provides storage, processing and logistics services for agricultural crops. Prior to the Russian aggression, it owned 34 elevators in Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Odesa, Kherson, and Dnipro regions.
By the end of 2021, the group planned to generate $45 million in EBITDA, while in 2020 this figure reached $32.6 million, and in 2019 – $30.5 million.
“In 2023, Prometey plans to increase its land bank from 20 thousand hectares to 50 thousand hectares, and in the long term, to increase it to 100 thousand hectares.
The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Tuesday established unified rules for the functioning of the Register of artesian wells to ensure open access to information about them and minimize corruption risks, government representative in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk said in Telegram.
The corresponding changes will be made to the Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution N963 “On approval of the Procedure for state registration of artesian wells, equipping them with means of measuring the volume of extracted groundwater”.
It is noted that the document defines the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers to develop the procedure for maintaining the state register of artesian wells, periodicity of submission and/or updating of data of the State Register of artesian wells, as well as legally fixes the concept of “artesian well”.
At the same time, according to the unified procedure of data submission to the State Register of artesian wells defined by the document, all information about them is entered through the electronic cabinet of the subsoil user, which is accessed on the State Geological Web Portal.
“The government continues its consistent policy in the direction of digitalization of the subsoil use sphere. With this decision, we create transparent access of the public and business to artesian well data and minimize corruption risks. The water user will be able to enter data about the well through the E-cabinet of the subsoil user without contact and intervention of an official,” emphasized the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets, who is quoted by the press service of the agency in its message in Telegram.
The Ministry of Natural Resources notes that the proposed changes will make it possible to promptly respond to wartime challenges, will help in overcoming the consequences of the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant and will make it possible to quickly provide the population with drinking water.
PJSC “National Energy Company (NEC) “Ukrenergo” on July 6 announced the intention to conclude with the insurance group “TAS” for voluntary health insurance services for 8.522 thousand people.
As reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro, the expected cost of the purchase of services is 46.678 million UAH, the price offer of the company – 38.941 million UAH.
The tender was also attended by IC ROM Ukraine with a price offer of UAH 38.626m, VUSO – UAH 44.989mn, Unica – UAH 45.553mn.
“Ukrenergo unites eight regional power systems: Dnipro, Donbas, Western, Crimean, Southern, South-Western, Northern and Central.
“Ukrenergo” operates backbone and interstate power transmission lines, as well as performs centralized dispatching of the country’s united power system. NEC is a state-owned enterprise subordinated to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
SG TAS was registered in 1998. It is a universal company offering its clients more than 80 types of insurance products on various types of voluntary and compulsory insurance. It has an extensive regional network of 28 regional directorates and branches.
On Thursday, July 13, in the western, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr regions, rain with thunderstorms, in the afternoon in some areas hail and squalls 15-20 m / s, in Transcarpathia and Prykarpattya significant rains, in the rest of the territory without precipitation, reports Ukrhydrometcenter.
The wind is south-western with a transition in the west and north of Ukraine to north-western, 7-12 m/s.
The temperature at night is 12-17°, in the southern part up to 20°, during the day 26-31°, in Odessa region up to 35°, in the western and eastern regions 22-27°.
In Kiev on Thursday without precipitation. The wind is southwesterly with a transition to northwesterly, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-17°, during the day about 30°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after. Borys Sreznevsky in Kiev on July 13, the highest daytime temperature was 34.1° in 1936, the lowest nighttime temperature was 8.2° in 1904.
On Friday, July 14, in Ukraine, except for western and most northern regions, expect short-term rains and thunderstorms, in some areas hail and squalls of 15-20 m/sec.
The wind is predominantly north-western, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-20°, in the southern part up to 23°, during the day 22-27°, in the south 30-32°.
Short rains and thunderstorms are forecast in Kiev on Friday. The wind is northwest, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night is 18-20°, during the day 24-26°.
Enterprises for operations with ferrous scrap in January-June of this year reduced scrap metal procurement by 25.2% compared to the same period last year – up to 531 thousand tons.
As reported in the operational information of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (“UAVtormet”) on Wednesday, the export of scrap metal for the period amounted to 92 thousand tons compared to 28.7 thousand tons in January-June-2022 (growth in 3.2 times). At the same time, import of scrap amounted to 0.5 thousand tons, while in the first six months of last year it amounted to 1.6 thousand tons.
Scrap deliveries to the country’s steel enterprises in January-June 2023 decreased by 37.2% compared to January-June 2022 – to 413.8 thousand tons from 659.4 thousand tons.
As of July 1, 2023, the level of scrap metal stocks at Ukrainian metal enterprises was estimated at 15-20 thousand tons.
As reported, Ukraine in 2022 reduced scrap procurement by 75.9% compared to 2021 – to 996.7 thousand tons from 4.136 million tons. Scrap metal exports last year amounted to 53.6 thousand tons, which is 11.5 times less compared to the previous year (615.7 thousand tons). At the same time, scrap imports amounted to 1.8 thousand tons (23 thousand tons in 2021).
Scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises in 2022 decreased by 73% compared to 2021 – to 895.7 thousand tons from 3 million 323.4 thousand tons.
“UAVtormet” forecasts in 2023 the procurement of ferrous scrap in the amount of 1.2-1.25 million tons. In addition, scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises are forecast to amount to 950-1000 thousand tons. Export of scrap metal is expected to amount to 180-200 thousand tons, import – 0.2-0.5 thousand tons. Steel output is expected to be 4.8-5.2 million tons.
