Grain Warning

Author: Volodymyr CHOPENKO

#29 (708) 9 August 2008

Unlike the devastating flood in Western Ukraine, the surplus of grain did not catch the government unaware. The rich grain harvest had been announced beforehand, with forecasts varying between forty and fifty million tons...

Seed-Oil Press

Author: Volodymyr CHOPENKO

#20 (699) 31 May 2008

Who can comprehend the government’s logic? Why does it limit seed-oil exports, causing the closedown of 15 oil-extracting plants and the loss of 15 thousand jobs, when the domestic market supply exceeds demand fourfold?..

“And In The Merry Countryside…”

Author: Volodymyr CHOPENKO

#9 (638) 8 March 2007

Taras Shevchenko dreamed of these things 150 years ago. Heaven knows when the Ukrainian countryside will finally turn into a paradise of joy and bounty… The National Rural Developm...

Land rendezvous

Author: Volodymyr CHOPENKO

#1 (630) 13 January 2007

So they met! The Years 2007 and 2008. Veto and moratorium. President and anti-crisis coalition. Who will have the upper hand? And, most important, why? On January 9, the future of arable land was being decided in the Verkhonva Rada once again: to start selling it now or postpone its sale till the next New Year?..

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