In 2012, over 2,600 agricultural enterprises attracted loans at UAH 13.5 billion, out of these, soft loans – at UAH 11 billion. Deputy Director of the Finance and Credit Department of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry Yuriy Miniailyk told a press conference at UKRINFORM about this.

Signing of the free trade area with the European Union will give impetus for the development of vegetable processing industry, agrarian policy and food minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told journalists during the press tour to the largest vegetable store in Europe, ForUm correspondent reports.

This issue was discussed on Tuesday at a meeting between Ukrainian Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk and French Ambassador to Ukraine Alain Remy, the press service of the Ukrainian Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry told.

According to the official information released by the company in its latest press-release, company purchased PC “Syrodel”, cheese production company in Kursk region. Russian company currently produces 3.5 thousand tons cheese, cheese products and butter production per annum.

In early February, in Ukraine there were more than 18,000 farms that used the land plot of over 100 hectares to provide their business. However, only 353 of them had land projects. But since the beginning of the year you have to pay a fine if you don’t have a land surveying project. That’s why, […]

Since the beginning of the National Cadastral System work the specialists have registered nearly 63thousand of land plots. The tenth part of them was in Kiev region. Besides, significant results in the land registration ware reached in Zhytomyr, Vinnytsya, Ternopil, Rivne, Chernigiv and Kirovohrad regions.

A strategy for the development of agricultural sector and a strategy for the sustainable development of rural areas may appear in Ukraine this year. President Viktor Yanukovych said this in an interview with the analytical magazine “Ukraine and the World in 2013. Global Agenda,” the press service of the head of state reported.

On February 14 Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhniuk held a working meeting with Dr. Sándor Fazekas, Minister of Rural Development of Hungary.

Agricultural workers will soon get credits at 10-15% lower rates against those existing now. This will be possible when the land bank starts working in Ukraine. Primarily, possibility of receiving credits will be profitable for farming enterprises, small and medium-size enterprises.

Over two years, total volume of products sold by enterprises with foreign investments grew by 4% and export volume by 22%. The press service of the Revenues and Duties Ministry of Ukraine told UKRINFORM about this.