Hungary will not renew the ban on honey import from Ukraine, despite protests from its farmers, who say cheap honey from Ukraine is getting down prices and threatening to put them out of business.
Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy told the newspaper that the unilateral import ban did not have a positive effect on the Hungarian market, as wholesale purchase prices did not increase as much as local farmers had hoped.
Read MoreThe export of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU reduced to the level of 2022 and amounts to less than 1 million tons per month, while last year in September it exceeded 4 million tons.
For almost a year, Ukraine has not been able to export wheat, sunflower, corn and rapeseed to neighboring EU countries.
Read MoreThe government of Moldova has extended for another 3 months the licensing regime for imports into the country of three main agricultural crops — wheat, corn and sunflower seeds.
The Commission on Emergency Situations decided to continue the mentioned measure in order to "maintain economically stable prices for domestic grain products on the domestic market."
Read MoreAs of March 27, in 2023/2024 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 34 million 199 thousand tons of grain and leguminous crops, which is 2 million 723 thousand tons or 1,07 times less than last year. This is reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
The export of Ukrainian wheat is 13 million 504 thousand tons, which is 881 thousand tons more than last year.
Read MoreOn March 27, the permanent representatives of the EU approved the extension of the so-called autonomous trade measures (visa-free trade) for Ukraine for the next year with a single clarification regarding the conditions for the application of protective restrictions.
Read MoreUkraine has exported 22 000 tons of chocolate to EU countries in 2023 and took the third place among non-EU countries. Ukraine accounted for 13% of the import of these products, reports Polish Radio with reference to Eurostat data.
Only Switzerland (62 thousand tons, 36% share) and Great Britain (61 thousand tons, 36% share) exported more chocolate to the EU.
Read MoreThe main sales market for these vegetables remains Romania, where almost 2 000 tons of products are sent every month. Moldova remains in the second place in terms of export volumes. Also significant batches of Ukrainian onions are sent to Bulgaria, Austria and Montenegro.
Read MoreIn January-February 2024 Ukraine has exported 1,1 thousand tons of live cattle, which is 3,8 times less than in the same period last year. This is evidenced by the data of the State Customs Service.
In monetary terms, the export of live cattle reduced 4,5 times compared to January-February 2023, – up to 1,5 million US dollars. All domestic live cattle during the first two months of this year were bought by Lebanon.
Read MoreThe head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Vitalii Koval, as part of a working visit to Cherkasy region, visited the single property complex of the state enterprise "Zlatodar". SE "Zlatodar", which had been one of the most powerful grain processing enterprises in the region, is unprofitable and has debt obligations of more than 600 million UAH.
Read MoreThe CMU adopted the procedure for providing compensation for the cost of the engineering and transport infrastructure facilities built by the investor with significant investment and compensation for the costs of connection to the engineering and transport networks necessary for the implementation of the project.
This year, 3 billion UAH has been allocated to support such investors in the budget.
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