Tymoshenko talked to agrarians (photo)

News / 10 August 2009 | 17:25

During her stay on a working visit to Poltava region the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has attended fields of maize and wheat in the Lokhvytsya area. Moreover, Yulia Tymoshenko got familiarized with operation of the grain elevator of company Rise and the grain quality laboratory.

 

Agrarians of Poltava region met the Head of Government with a huge placard with words: “We thank You for the support of agricultural service cooperatives”. Yulia Tymoshenko talked to workers of agricultural enterprises and discussed problems raising great concern of villagers.

 

The Gov’t backs production of modern agricultural equipment and is to encourage agrarians to use it. The Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced in the course of visit of agrarian enterprise Rise-Maxymko in Lokhvytsky area of Poltava region.

 

In particular, Yulia Tymoshenko stressed the Gov’t is handling improvement of program of purchase of up-to-date agricultural equipment, with UAH 700 million envisaged in the State Budget of the current year for these purposes.

 

“This year we have come to a decision to change approaches to such state order and not to buy ineffective equipment but instead to encourage the national enterprises to produce equipment that gives higher effect and to accustom agrarians to use that,” the Premier underlined.

 

Yulia Tymoshenko urged heads of enterprises that had already mastered advanced technologies of cultivation of lands and crops to assist the Government to adjust the approaches to such state order: “in order not to waste money”.

 

 

 

Source: Government Portal

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PM: Ukraine could potentially harvest 70 millions tons of grain annually

News / 10 August 2009 | 16:00

Ukraine has the potential to annually harvest 70 million tons of grain in the upcoming years, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told journalists during her working visit to the Poltava oblast, press service of Yulia Tymoshenko reported.

“We have all we need to reach this level. We need to utilize the leading technologies for grain processing and storage. The government has a strategy for selecting the best agricultural producers, consolidating their skills and spreading this knowledge across Ukraine,” Tymoshenko said.

She also said that the government plans to involve the government sector in the development of the grain industry. “We’re geared towards the state agrarian fund not only storing but exporting grain. This is a great opportunity for filling the budget,” she said.

According to Tymoshenko, the agrarian fund should work in cooperation with Khlib Ukrainy, which owns 12% of the grain elevator capacity in Ukraine.

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Cabinet allocates UAH 5.6mln for GMO lab

News / 10 August 2009 | 15:37

Within the frames of fulfilling the State Target Economic Program of the domestic market development for a period till 2012, UAH 5,676 million (USD 1/UAH 7.7) will be allocated to the Economics Ministry and the State Committee on Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy from the State Budget to set up test laboratories to determine quality and quantity contents of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials, the Cabinet’s resolution reads, the text of which was published at the government’s official website.

In particular, the funds have been allocated to set up test laboratories, taking samples of goods, development, making and registration of test systems, as well as for carrying out attestation of principles for determining the quality and quantity contents of the GMO in foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials, ForUm informs, referring to UkrInform.

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Poll: Yanukovych leads presidential election race

News / 10 August 2009 | 15:00

If the presidential election is held on Sunday this week, Leader of the Regions Party Viktor Yanukovych would receive 22% of the vote, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko would get 13% while Head of the Front for Changes initiative Arseniy Yatseniuk would receive 11% of the votes, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

These are results of July poll held by the Razumkov Center and announced by Director of the center’s Social Programs Department Liudmyla Shanhina in her article for the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly newspaper.

According to the poll, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and Leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko would receive 4% of the vote each. The head of the eponymous bloc and Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn would receive 3%.

However, 10% of respondents said they would not participate in the election, while some 15% said they are not sure whether to participate or not.

The poll was conducted on July 20-28, 2009. Some 2006 people over 18 were polled in all regions of Ukraine. The poll’s average margin of error is 2.3%.

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Kyiv authorities plan to form city green zone database

News / 10 August 2009 | 14:31

Kyiv authorities have planned to create a database of the city’s green zones, the press service of Kyiv City State Administration has reported, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

According to the officials, the database will be formed under a program of Kyiv green zone monitoring developed by specialists of the Hryshko National Botanic Garden.

The program’s goal is to constantly monitor and maintain favorable condition for plants.

According to the program, field and laboratory research will be conducted in 30 areas of Kyiv. Apart from that, specialists will monitor air pollution around industrial objects and heavy traffic sectors.

The project is headed by Kyiv Mayor Advisor Ihor Dobrutsky

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Tymoshenko left for Poltava oblast

News / 10 August 2009 | 13:00

Today, August 10 the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko will pay a working visit to Poltava region during which she plans to chair a meeting dedicated to the issues of development of grain market and its infrastructure, government portal reported.

In the course of trip the Head of Government will also see crops of maize and wheat on the fields of Rise-Maxymko company in Lokhvytsky area. Besides, Yulia Tymoshenko will get familiarized with operation of a grain elevator of Rise Company and grain quality laboratory.

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Ukrainian diplomat leaves Moscow

News / 10 August 2009 | 12:33

Ihor Berezkin, a counselor and head of the political department at the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, has left Russia, Interfax-Ukraine learned at the Ukrainian embassy on Monday, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

A source at the embassy said that the Ukrainian diplomat left Moscow without drama in execution of Russia’s recommendation on the termination of his posting, which was made in response to similar actions by Kyiv.

Berezkin had been working in Moscow since January 2009. He was in charge of the political aspect of Russian-Ukrainian relations, in particular issues related to the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s deployment in Crimea.

As reported, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry demanded that a counselor at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, Vladimir Lysenko, in charge of the Black Sea Fleet issues, leave Ukraine before July 29. The counselor left Kyiv on Tuesday, July 28.

The Ukrainian government had allegedly also demanded the expulsion of the Russian consul general in Odesa, Alexander Grachev.

The Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, said the Ukrainian ambassador in Moscow, Kostiantyn Hryschenko, had been given “an account in connection with the unfriendly actions of the Ukrainian government in relation to two Russian diplomatic envoys in Ukraine – the consul general in Odesa and a senior counselor at the Russian Embassy – who have been told to finish their postings in Ukraine.”

“Despite the fact that the Ukrainian side has ‘suspended’ its decision concerning the Russian consul general, the Russian side assesses Kyiv’s act as an openly anti-Russian move that is damaging to relations between Russia and Ukraine,” the ministry said.

“The Ukrainian ambassador was told that the Russian side proposes that the Ukrainian side recall the Ukrainian consul general in St. Petersburg and one of the counselors at the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow before their postings officially expire. The Russian side will also suspend its decision concerning the Ukrainian consul general in St. Petersburg in conformity with the principle of reciprocity,” the ministry said.

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Yanukovych proposes to form national anti-crisis center

News / 10 August 2009 | 11:26

Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych has proposed forming a national anti-crisis center. He was speaking in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper, UKRINFORM reported.

“The goal of such a center is to collect all information, both from official and alternative sources, about the situation in the country, determine painful issues and offer options for resolving concrete tasks,” he said.

The politician said that political parties represented in parliament, as well as Ukrainian intellectuals would have to be involved in the center’s work.

“Such a center should be created with the participation of all parties represented in parliament, as well as the Ukrainian intellectual elite. The nation should be informed about the work [of this center] in an online mode,” Yanukovych said.

He said that the creation and full-scale activity of a similar center would become possible after the presidential election on January 17, 2010.

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