The total area of farmland having the status of organic land expanded by10.2% in 2017 from a year ago, reaching 420,000 ha (1% of total farmland in Ukraine). According to information posted on the website of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, in the past five years the total area of organic farmland in Ukraine expanded 1.5-fold.
By the total area of farmland certified as organic, Ukraine ranks 11th in Europe and 20th in the world. At the same time, almost half of the land is under grain cultivation (45.4%), more than 18% are oilseeds and 5.3% are legumes, followed by vegetables (1.6%) and fruits (0.7%). Most of the organic lands are located in Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia and Poltava regions. In 2017, the consumer market of organic products in Ukraine amounted to EUR 29.4 million, and per capita consumption was EUR 0.68 per year (for comparison, the EU resident spends EUR 60.5 per year on organic products).
The main types of organic products that are produced and consumed in Ukraine are fruits, vegetables, cereals, meat and dairy products, cereals and bakery products. The range of organic products includes more than 100 products of Ukrainian origin.
According to the Reform Support Team under the ministry, in 2017, in Ukraine there were 529 organic market operators. The volume of exports of organic products in 2017 increased by 10%, 330,000 tonnes and amounted to EUR 99 million. About 98% of exported products are raw materials. The largest consumer countries of the Ukrainian organic goods are: the Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Austria, Poland, Switzerland and Belgium. The main export products are cereals, oilseeds, legumes, berries, fruits and wild plants.
Passenger traffic at the Kharkiv International Airport in September 2018 amounted to 88,900 people, which is 12% more compared to the same period in 2017, the press service of the airport has reported. The number of international flights in September increased by 9%, domestic – by 26%. Flights to Istanbul, Kyiv, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Batumi, Dortmund, Katowice, Minsk, Tbilisi, Milan were of the greatest demand.
Kharkiv airport has a runway 2,500 meters long and 50 meters wide. There are two passenger terminals with the capacity of 100 and 650 people on its territory. DCH manages the airport through New Systems AM.
Vinn-Agro-Export LLC (Vinnytsia region) has begun the construction of an elevator with a capacity of 65,000 tonnes in the village Makharyntsi (Vinnytsia region). According to a report on the website of Vinnytsia Regional State Administration, in an hour the elevator will be able to accept up to 600 tonnes of grain and ship up to 300 tonnes. In addition, the company plans to build a railway track branch. In future, the elevator will ship up to 50 wagons a day.
The company also plans to build a laboratory to determine grain chemical and biological composition. The expected investment is $12 million.
Vinn-Agro-Export is engaged in wholesale of grain, untreated tobacco, seeds and animal feed. According to the unified state register of legal entities and individuals, Anatoliy Yarmolenko is the ultimate beneficiary of Vinn-Agro-Export.
BUILDING, ELEVATOR, INVESTS, VINN-AGRO-EXPORT, VINNYTSIA REGION
The consortium Enerparc AG-Rodina Energy Group plans to increase the capacity of its solar power plants in the Chornobyl exclusion zone from 1 MW to 100 MW, CEO of Rodina Energy Group Yevgeniy Variagin has said at a press conference in Kyiv. “We have plans to develop this project, to expand it to about 100 MW. And we are working on this with our partners,” he said.
Enerparc AG-Rodina Energy Group has recently officially put into operation a pilot solar station with a capacity of 1 MW near Chornobyl nuclear power plant. As reported, the construction of a pilot solar plant was completed in early 2018, in summer it got a feed-in tariff.
Solar Chornobyl LLC (Kyiv) in 2017 rented part of a concrete platform near the facility “Chornobyl NPP’s second phase switchgear” with an area of 1.7 hectares for the implementation of the solar plant construction project by Enerparc AG-Rodina Energy Group.
