Agriculture

Friday, November 12

Saudi Arabia will buy Ukrainian black caviar. Ukraine and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have agreed on a form of certificate for products exported from Ukraine derived from aquatic animals (caviar, seafood, etc.). “The market of the Kingdom o...

Thursday, November 11

The State Grain Corporation is resuming its agricultural production, announced a press release on Facebook. Velykolepetysky Elevator has a sown area of 4,800 hectares. The sowing of winter wheat on an area of 540 hectares has resumed. Winter barley was also planted on ...

Wednesday, November 10

The Deposit Guarantee Fund will auction 11 land plots that are owned by Arkada Bank. The fund reminded investors of the opportunity to purchase land plots of JSCB “ARKADA” located in the village of Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi district, Kyiv region. The resa...

The government will attract up to €250 mln in loans from the USA. The Cabinet of Ministers will approve the loan from the US agricultural company, Cargill. The maturity of the three-year loan will be at 5.15%, and the five-year loan at 5.85%.

Tuesday, November 9

The Agrarian Fund has confirmed that it has lost ₴2.14 bln. The funds which equate to $81.4 mln placed in accounts of the bankrupt Brokbusinessbank in 2014, and were not returned to the company after the bank’s liquidation. The Agrarian Fund was founded ...

Monday, November 8

Farmers of the Odesa region will receive state compensation for the lost harvest, announced minagro.gov.ua. Farmers will receive ₴4,700 ($178) per hectare of state compensation for damage to crops due to emergencies of man-made and natural nature. “The small farms create jobs in ru...

Friday, November 5

The Verkhovna Rada passed a law establishing a Credit Guarantee Fund for farmers. The new law is designed to support small and medium businesses, including farms, by providing loan guarantees of up to 50% of the outstanding amount of principal for up to 10 years.

Thursday, November 4

The Cabinet of Ministers plans to approve a methodology for the valuation of land plots. They will consider a draft resolution approving the methodology of regulatory monetary valuation of land, said the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Roman Leshchenko.

Low apple prices lead to a farming crisis. This year’s apple harvest in Ukraine has exceeded demand. This is problematic for farmers as it is impossible to sell fruit profitably, reported Ukraine 24 TV channel. Since the beginning of October, ...

Monday, November 1

Ukraine has harvested 7.7 mln tons of sugar beets from 164.6 thousand hectares. According to Minagro, there are currently 29 sugar factories in Ukraine. In the 2021/2022 marketing year, sugar production is expected to reach 1.4 mln tons, which is 30%...

The contribution of the harvest to real GDP growth this year will be 0.8%, according to the National Bank. A harvest plays a significant role in the recovery of Ukraine’s economy after the Covid crisis and the growing importance of agricultural production in Ukraine...

Friday, October 29

Government support for the agro-industrial complex should be at 1% of GDP. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Roman Leshchenko, said, “We have already defended the position of ₴4.6 bln ($174 mln) for the agro-industrial complex (for 2022). We are in dialogue with the Min...

10 million hectares of land in Ukraine are cultivated unofficially. According to the State Tax Service, the area of agricultural land, the cultivation of which is not officially recorded, is 10 million hectares, or one-sixth of the area of Ukraine, said the acting hea...

Thursday, October 28

As of today, 14% of Ukrainian farmland owners are not aware of the opening of the land market for sale. According to the results of the All-Ukrainian sociological survey “Land Market in Ukraine”, 85.9% of landowners know about the opening of the market, and 14.1% do not know at all. In Ukrai...

Wednesday, October 27

Harvest of grain and oilseeds may exceed 100 mln tons. “This year Ukraine has set a record by harvesting more than 100 mln tons of grain and oilseeds”, said Minister of Agrarian Policy, Roman Leshchenko, at a meeting with representatives of Polish and Ukr...

Farmers to receive more than a $1 bln in affordable loans, under the program “Affordable loans 5-7-9%”. “We have launched a very powerful program 5-7-9, which has provided more than a billion dollars in cheap loans for Ukrainian farmers to u...

Monday, October 25

The volume of the shadowland lease market has increased from UAH 20 bln ($760 mln) to UAH 70 bln ($2.66 bln) annually, reported gov.ua. At the meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group on De-Shading of the Economy, several measures to bring the economy “out of the shadows” were considered. The agency ...

Friday, October 22

The maximum volume of wheat exports is expected to reach 25.3 million tons – announced by the Ministry of Agriculture. Ukraine will be able to export no more than 25.3 million tons of wheat in the 2021/2022 marketing year (MR). The Ministry organizes the signing o...

Thursday, October 21

The European Commission has completed its audit of Ukrainian diary products, and confirmed the high quality of them, reported gov.ua . The audit was necessary to certify the production of milk and dairy products from Ukraine, which are intended for export to the European Union...

Ukrainian poultry producers to export to Georgia, (mfa.gov.ua). Ukraine and Georgia have agreed on the form of a certificate for the export of meat, offal, and other poultry products from Ukraine. This new export market will produce more foreign exch...

The Grain Association has developed a new bank guarantee mechanism for forward contracts . A presentation of a new mechanism will allow exporters to get a higher price through a reliability premium, reduce the risk of potential losses to buyers and guarantee the reliability of suppliers,&...

Tuesday, October 19

Ukraine increased Grain exports by 11.7% . During the marketing year July 2021/June 2022, Ukraine had boosted grain export to 16,536,000 tons, Ukrainian News Agency has reported. Ukraine has exported 10,737,000 tons of wheat, 4,022,000 tons ...

In Ukraine, the number of all types of agricultural stock is decreasing. As of October 1, 2021, the number of main species of farm animals decreased by 1.7-6.7% in comparison with the same period in 2020, as reported by the Statistics Service of Ukraine.

Milk production in Ukraine has also decreased. In January-September 2021, milk production declined by 6.1% compared to the same period in 2020, to 6.81 million tons, reported the State Statistics Service. Most milk for this period was produced in ...

Egg production has decreased. In January-September 2021, egg production in Ukraine decreased by 14.1% compared to the same period in 2020. According to the State Statistics Service, the largest number of eggs during this period wa...

Ukraine will compete as the destination of the World Exhibition “Expo-2030”, putting forward Odesa as the host city. The official application was submitted by the Ukrainian delegation to the International Exhibitions Bureau in Paris. Should Ukraine succeed, reported theodessajournal. The World Exhibition will be hel...

Monday, October 18

Ukrainian notaries have registered 29,500 land transactions. As of October 13, 2021, 29,493 agreements were concluded within the land market (Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine). “In total, there were 5,759 applications, of which 5,094 were approve...

Thursday, October 14

The Ministry of Agriculture wants to replace the right of free privatization in “physical” hectares with the right to a fixed discount on the purchase and lease of state land, announced the Minister, Roman Leshchenko. This discount will be the same an...

Wednesday, October 13

The Government will support farmers who use land irrigation technology. In a recent announcement, the Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, said that the state will reimburse 25% of the costs of agricultural producers who have installed or modernized irrigation systems on their ...

Ukrzaliznytsia transported a record 3.8 million tons of grain in September 2021. The company shipped an average of 118,900 tons per day, which is 30.6% more than in September 2020 and 10.6% more than in September 2019. “The company has every opportunity to export a record amount o...

Monday, October 11

Continental Farmers Group opened an agricultural potato storage the facility in the village of Chukva (Lviv region). The facility has the capacity to store up to 16,000 tons of potatoes, and the total cost of investment in the construction of the facility was UAH ...

Friday, October 8

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has announced that 26,898 land agreements have been registered in Ukraine. As of today, 26,898 agreements have been concluded within the land market. There was a total of 5,742 applications, of which 5,073 were approved, 7 were in the queue for consideration, and 662 were re...

The first land auction in the Prozorro.Sales system has been announced. The first auction for the lease of communal agricultural land has been announced in the state electronic trading system Prozorro.Sales on November 9, 2021. A 2.1-hectare plot of land was put up for au...

Thursday, October 7

Land reform in Ukraine needs to be improved. On the 100-day anniversary of the land market, Ukrainian legislation lacks the last important link that will improve access to credit for small and medium farmers. For all Ukrainians to benefit from l...

The harvest of oilseeds in Ukraine in 2021 is estimated to be 23.2 million tons, which is a 19% increase in volume from the 2020 harvest. “Despite the expected record harvest, prices for Ukrainian agricultural products remain quite high....

Tuesday, October 5

Ukrainian honey has become one of the tops exported food products. Whilst we may see the main export goods for Ukraine are grain and iron ore, the export of honey is growing in both capacity and quality product. In 2020, Ukraine exported 80.8 thousand tons of honey, ...

Friday, October 1

Agro-industrial exhibition of Ukraine “AgroExpo-2021” has opened in the Kirovograd region. UkraineInvest’s Executive Director Sergiy Tsivkach took part in the opening of the event where 510 companies are represented, and participant levels are expe...

Ukraine has exported 13.6 mln tons of grain in the 2021/2022 marketing year. As of September 29, Ukraine exported 13.611 mln tons of grains and pulses. The announcement was made by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. In September Ukraine h...

Thursday, September 30

Prozorro Auction for the lease and sale of the land. The online auction site began accepting bids for the lease of state and communal agricultural land, and the sale and lease of non-agricultural land. The function of https://prozorro.sale/ was to ensur...

Tuesday, September 28

Drip irrigation with Turkish and Italian suppliers for KSG Agro in Ukraine. Agroholding KSG Agro has begun installing drip irrigation systems for corn crops on an area of more than 300 hectares in the village of Nyva Trudova (Dnipropetrovsk region), which will double the yiel...

Kernel Verevsky bought back $50 million of its shares. Kernel’s subsidiary Etrecom Investments Limited of Cyprus has repurchased 3.23 million shares of Kernel shares at PLN 60 per share for a total of PLN 193.62 million (approximately $ 49.3 million...

Thursday, September 23

The US is opening its market to exports of Ukrainian corn and wheat. “We are very much looking forward to the opening of the US market for Ukrainian corn and wheat because it will create new prospects for business development and economic growth of our country,&#...

Wednesday, September 22

Seed Corp (Cherkasy) opens a plant in Ukraine. The Ukrainian division of the American company Remington Seeds launched the first stage of a corn seed production plant in the village of Helmiaziv (Cherkasy region). The project has an estimated valu...

Wednesday, September 15

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine is working with investors from the UAE who have expressed interest in investments in Ukraine’s agricultural sector. This includes UAE institutions and companies in the irrigation sector. The subject was the matter of discussion during a meeting of the Agrarian Policy Ministry representatives with the UAE government...

A new grain terminal to be built at Yuzhny port. According to the Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine (USPA). TC Tehagro LLC presented the project for the construction of a new grain terminal to the Council of the Administration of the Yuzhny (Pi...

Tuesday, September 14

Almost 36,000 hectares of agricultural land have been sold in Ukraine. As of September 13, Ukraine registered 15,533 agreements on the purchase and sale of agricultural land (Ukrinform). According to the Ministry, 4,943 notaries submitted applications for access to the S...

Monday, September 13

Ukraine exports 10.3 mln tones of cereals and legumes at the beginning of the period 2021/2022. Since the beginning of the 2021/2022 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 10.29 million tons of grain and leguminous crops. This figure is 11.7% more than the...

Thursday, September 9

IFC & Ukraine agree to develop irrigation infrastructure. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food have signed an MOU to modernize and develop the irrigation and drainage sector in Ukraine. The aim is to increa...

Wednesday, September 8

More than 13,000 land agreements are now registered in Ukraine. As of September 6, 12,784 agreements on the purchase and sale of agricultural land have been concluded. 27, 810 hectares of agricultural land have been sold throughout the country since July 1, 2021. ...

Ukraine records one of its hottest summers and the implications of global warming. With temperatures regularly rising above 40C, this threatens its agriculture sector that accounts for “Water unavailability and heat stress during periods of increased temperature already impact the y...