Partners news Tuesday, June 8 Editor’s Note: Articulate German officials may promise that they will not allow Russia to use Nord Stream 2 to leave Ukraine defenseless. But with elections in September, articulate German officials will come and go...
Investments Tuesday, June 8 Investing in a timber industry for future generations, President Zelenskiy announced yesterday at a national ecology forum a goal to plant 1 billion trees over the three years remaining in his term . Recently, Ukrainians carried out a national campaign, planting 1 million trees in 24 hours. To plant 1 billion trees, it would be necessary to plant 1 million trees every day for three years. On a m... #OnebillionTreestoPlant #TimberIndustryUkraine #TreesPlantingUkraine
AgricultureInvestments Tuesday, June 8 In Odesa alone, the government is spending $92 million this year in a crash effort to restore irrigation . If the Rada passes the irrigation bill, Leshchenko tells the Kyiv Post he expects the EBRD and the World Bank to loan Ukraine $2 billion to rebuild its irrigation systems. #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 After last year’s drought caused up to $4 billion in crop losses to southern farmers, the Agriculture Ministry is launching a pilot project to restore irrigation systems in Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia regions. Minister Leshchenko writes on Facebook: “We will rebuild and exp... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 Of Ukraine’s 41.5 million hectares, 57% need some form of irrigation. The bill’s note says18.7 million hectares need constant irrigation and 4.8 million need periodic irrigation. Expected to pass this year, the bill would break the state monopoly on setting water rates,... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 Ukraine’s Soviet-era irrigation system has largely collapsed, according to an explanatory note accompanying a Rada bill to allow farmers to create water cooperatives. In 1990, the last year of the Soviet Union, “hydraulic reclamation” was carried out on 23 milli... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 Two thirds of Ukraine’s farmland is at risk of drought due to climate change, Ukraine’s Agriculture Minister Roman Leshchenko told the Ukraine 30 Ecology forum yesterday. “Climate change is taking place and in fact two thirds of our territory is becoming a zone of risky agricul... #AgricultureUkraine2021 #agroUkraine #DroughtinUkraine #IrrigationSystemsUkraine
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 China’s growing appetite for wheat and soybeans, a severe drought in Brazil, growing demand for vegetable oil for biodiesel, and supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic were cited last week by the Financial Times as reasons for rising food prices. “The drought in Brazi... #AgroUkraine2021 #SoybeansUkraine #WheatExport
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 Concorde Capital’s Evgeniya Akhtyrko wrote: “The recent growth of global food prices is mostly attributed to increasing demand driven by a massive throwing of public money for pandemic fighting around the world. The recent acceleration of consu... #FoodPricesGrowith #FoodProductionUkraine
Agriculture Tuesday, June 8 Global food prices increased by 40% yoy, reported the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. After a 5% jump in May over April, the FAO Food Price index increased by 121.7 points, just short of a record high hit a decade ag... #FoodPrices2021 #foodpricesgoup #GlobalFoodPrices
Energy Tuesday, June 8 Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov predicted Saturday that after the launch of Nord Stream 2 Russia could sabotage the pipeline to justify stopping gas transit across Ukraine. Avakov told reporters: “We expect that there will be provocations, attempted terrorist attacks on our section of the gas pipeline. And then they will say: ‘Look, you see, that is why we transport it t... #ArsenAvakovUkraine #NordStream2andUkraine #NordStream2threatforUkraine
EnergyPartners news Tuesday, June 8 In contrast, Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted: “#Putin blackmails #Ukraine before #NordStream2 has even been finished. He uses the pipeline as exactly the kind of weapon, the Poles, B... #BundestagForeignAffairsCommittee #GermanySupportsUkraine #nordstream2 #UkraineandNordstream2
Energy Tuesday, June 8 “For the German government it remains central that Ukraine should remain a transit country even after Nord Stream 2,” German government spokesperson Stefffen Seibert said to reporters on Monday. Referring to the Russia-Ukraine gas transit pact that expires at the end of 2024, he said: “We would like the option when i... #StefffenSeibert #UkraineGasTransitCountry #UkraineneedsGasTransit
EnergyPartners news Tuesday, June 8 The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has told a US Congressional committee Monday that Nord Stream 2 is a “fait accompli.” Referring to worries that this Ukraine bypass pipeline will free Russia to attack Ukraine, Blinken told the House Foreign Affairs Committee: “We have agreements in place, upfront, to come back on any ... #AntonyBlinkenagainstNordStream2 #NordStream2istheThreat #NordStream2threatforUkraine #RussianGasPipeline
Energy Tuesday, June 8 Biden will “stand up firmly for Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and aspirations,” US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters about next week’s meeting with Putin. In an interview with Axios posted on Sunday, Zelenskiy asked for a meeting with Biden, complaining about... #BidenPutinSummit #JoeBiden #nordstream2 #Putin #Zelenskyy
Partners news Tuesday, June 8 President Biden has invited President Zelenskiy to visit the White House next month. Yesterday the two leaders spoke in advance of two critical meetings that are scheduled for next week. Next Monday, there will be a NATO heads of government meeting in Brussels. Ukraine has not been in... #JoeBiden #Putin #Zelenskyy