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The passenger traffic at the Chernivtsi airport grew by almost 70% in April 2018 compared to April 2017, the city council reports. In April, 5,593 people used its services as compared with 3,306 people a year ago.The increase has been noticeable as regards international flights (137 passengers in April 2017 against 1,519 passengers in April 2018).
9.1.4 Construction & Real estate sector news
9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
Ukrainian farmers exported almost 34mn tonnes of grain since July 2017,
UNIAN reports. During the last marketing year, wheat exports totalled 15.1mn tonnes, barley 4.1mn tonnes, and maize 14.3mn tonnes, the press service of Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry announced. Rye exports totalled 32,700 tonnes. 377,400 tonnes of flour were exported, including 376,000 tonnes of wheat flour and 1,400 tonnes of other types of flour. Ukraine harvested 61.3mn tonnes of grain and leguminous crops in 2017, which was 7.3% down from 2016, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said.
Ukraine’s sugar exports fell 12% in April . Sugar exports in April 2018 fell from March 2018, to 41,800 tonnes. But the geography of the exports did not change, UNIAN reports. Uzbekistan accounted for 55% of the shipments, Great Britain, 12%; Azerbaijan, 6%, and Moldova, Libya and Turkey for about 15%. Sugar exports from the beginning of the current marketing year, beginning in September 2017, to April 2018 inclusive, totalled 379,900 tonnes. Between August 30, 2017 and August 2018 Ukrainian sugar factories produced 2.14mn tonnes of sugar, which was 6.5% higher than the previous season.
Production of milk in Ukraine in January-April 2018 (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, part of the ATO zone) decreased by 1.1% compared to the same period in 2017, to 2.837 million tonnes. The State Statistics Service said egg production in
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