Ukrainian lawmakers mull farm privatisation
- Foreign Brief
- 07 June 2017
Ukraine’s parliament will begin discussing controversial IMF-mandated agricultural land reforms today, while the country's farmers march in protest outside.
Ukraine’s parliament will begin discussing controversial IMF-mandated agricultural land reforms today, while the country's farmers march in protest outside.
Chinese state-owned Huangfanqu Farm and a Ukrainian partner are investing $50 million in a livestock farm in Koryukovka and a grains farm in Naumovka, as well as a 2,700 ha forest, where it plans to raise wild animals.
An appeal signed by 55 lawmakers has been sent to the Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium in Ukraine.
Companies are betting that global appetites will increasingly rely on Black Sea soil even as obstacles to growth remain.
La verkhovna Rada a prolongé au moins jusqu’en 2018, le moratoire sur la vente de terres agricoles.
Le français Charles Beigbeder a fondé AgroGeneration en 2007. L'entreprise exploite 120.000 hectares des terres noires d'Ukraine.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.
Trigon Agri shares tumbled 11%, matching their record low, after the former Soviet Union farm operator unveiled a widening in losses and weakening in its balance sheet, and termed 2016 a "year of challenges".
AgroGeneration, producteur de céréales et d'oléagineux en Ukraine, annonce la signature d'un contrat majeur de prépaiement pour une partie de sa récolte 2016 pour un maximum de 10 millions de dollars, avec la société Quadra Commodities
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc's agricultural business, which has farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Iranian business is highly interested in realization of extraterritorial agricultural services, i.e. renting of agricultural lands in the territory of Ukraine, says Ambassador.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk considers it necessary to sell 1 million hectares of lands in state ownership at an open auction as part of the land reform.
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