Farm Supports Lead to Rise in Dairy Farms

As part of government agricultural policy 68 dairy farms were constructed in 2012 with 202 other enterprises receiving rebuilding and development grants.

Year in review: Grain market – all’s well

2012 has been the year when the state for the first time in the history of Ukraine’s grain market has managed not only to reach agreement with grain traders on the conditions of their work, but also to abide by its commitments. As a result, the first half of the marketing year was one of […]

Agricultural cooperation with China deepening

The memorandum of cooperation between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the Sino-Ukrainian Association for International Projects and the China National Corporation for Overseas Economic Cooperation in promoting bilateral investment cooperation and joint investment projects in agriculture was signed in Beijing on Wednesday, the UKRINFORM correspondent reported from China.

Agriculture ministry to spend half of China’s $3 billion loan on irrigation

Ukraine’s Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry plans to spend $1.5 billion of the Export-Import Bank of China’s $3 billion loan on irrigation projects.

Ukraine to present agricultural products in Germany

Ukraine will represent agricultural products at the “Green Week” in Germany, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry press service informs.

EBRD lent USD 30 Ml to Nibulon Agro Holding

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) gave a USD 30 Ml loan to Nibulon, one of Ukraine’s major agricultural holdings, said Nibulon’s General Director Alexey Vadatursky. He noted that the parties signed a corresponding agreement on Monday.

Ukraine. Farm produce export geography largely expanded – agriculture minister

Over the year Ukraine has significantly expanded the geography of its agricultural exports, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysiazhniuk told a briefing at the Cabinet. “Ukraine has managed to significantly expand the geography of its exports. Beside the major traditional importers of Ukrainian production – Egypt, Iran and Spain, Ukrainian traders have entered […]

EBRD will support Ukraine irrespective of its cooperation with IMF

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will support the Ukrainian economy regardless of the conditions of Ukraine’s cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the bank’s officials told a news conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Ukraine Seeking to Export Corn to U.S., Farm Ministry Says

Ukraine is seeking to export corn to the U.S., where this year’s harvest was reduced by the worst drought in half a century, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said. “This would be a very important confirmation that our product has quality and meets all standards,” Prysyazhnyuk told reporters in Kiev today. Ukraine is trying to agree […]

Agrarian Policy Ministry sums up annual results of industry development

Acting agrarian policy and food minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has declared that today we can talk about the first results of the farmers’ work and voiced the figures of the industry for 11 months of 2012, he told a briefing after the government’s meeting, ForUm correspondent reports.