Until 2030, Ukraine will increase the harvest and production of the main types of agricultural raw materials, which will allow the country to consolidate the status of a constantly growing producer and exporter of grains, oilseeds and sunflower oil, while a reduction is expected in production of sugar, milk and beef, the Ukrainian Agriculture Export Association (UAEA) reported.
As the UAEA told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday, the relevant data are contained in a joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which compares the average annual production of the main types of agricultural products for 2018-2022 with projections in 2030.
Thus, the growth of the corn crop in Ukraine is projected from 33.99 million tonnes to 44.01 million tonnes (29.4% more), wheat – from 26.01 million tonnes to 35.86 million tonnes (37.8% more), and oilseeds – from 22.04 million tonnes to 26.29 million tonnes (19.3% more).
During the specified period, an increase in production of vegetable oil is also expected from 6.88 million tonnes to 8.4 million tonnes (22.1% more), poultry meat – from 1.15 million tonnes to 1.54 million tonnes (33.9% more), pork – from 0.71 million tonnes to 0.82 million tonnes (15.5% more), and fish and seafood – from 99,000 tonnes to 101,000 tonnes (2% more).
At the same time, Ukraine is projected to reduce milk production from 9.82 million tonnes to 8.93 million tonnes (9.1% less), sugar – from 1.38 million tonnes to 1.24 million tonnes (10.1% less) and beef – from 0.37 million tonnes to 0.33 million tonnes (10.8% less).
“The current forecasts of international organizations almost always consider Ukraine as a constantly growing producer and exporter of grains, oilseeds and sunflower oil, that is, our status as a supplier of raw materials to the world market will be strengthened,” the association summed up.
The Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center plans to launch the Apteka project for automated dilution of drugs for chemotherapy in 2022, acting director of the center Oleksandr Kliusov has said.
“This is a project of the Department of Health of Kyiv City State Administration. The essence of the project is to automate the process of dilution of drugs for chemotherapy. I hope that the project will start working within the next few months,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Kliusov said that equipment has already been delivered to the clinic for the implementation of the project: three robotic cytoboxes, in which the robot dispenses ready-made forms of chemotherapy drugs.
Investments in the project amounted to about UAH 50 million.
Ukraine sold industrial products (goods, services) for UAH 3.584 trillion in 2021, which is 44.5% more than in 2020 (UAH 2.481 trillion), including for UAH 1.019 trillion outside the country, the State Statistics Service said on Friday.
According to the authority, in December 2021 year-over-year, the turnover of the sold products of mining and processing industry rose by 31.8%. Sales of mining industry products in December 2021 compared to the same month last year grew by 18.1%, processing industry – by 34.8%.
Compared to the previous month (December to November 2021), sales in the mining industry rose by 5%, in the processing industry – by 10.7%.
The processing industry (61.3%) had the largest share of the total volume of sales of industrial products in 2021, the share of the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning was 21.5%, the mining industry and quarrying 16.1%, metallurgical production 16.0%.
As reported, in 2020, Ukraine sold industrial products (goods, services) for UAH 2.481 trillion.
The Ministry of Finance has begun work on the preparation of a draft Budget Declaration for 2023-2025, which the Cabinet of Ministers must approve no later than June 1.
“First Deputy Finance Minister Denys Uliutin held an online meeting with representatives of the ministry on the preparation of the draft Budget Declaration for 2023-2025,” the Finance Ministry’s website reported.
At the same time, the Ministry of Finance insists on the preparation by budget managers of high-quality proposals regarding the goals of state policy and the volume of additional expenditures to achieve them in order to form a vision of budget policy for the medium term and make calculations of budget indicators for the next three years.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada has approved the Budget Declaration for 2022-2024. The Ministry of Finance prepares such a document for three years annually. After the adoption of the new declaration, the previous one becomes invalid, the ministry reminded.
