A German rapeseed processing giant has opened a representative office in Ukraine. Getreide AG, one of Germany’s leading rapeseed processors, officially opened a representative office in Ukraine at the beginning of October. The branch’s opening was necessary because the ... #agroUkraine #Farmers #Germany #GetreideAG #ProcessingIndustry #Rapeseed
Bayer has disclosed the details of its €60M investment project in the Zhytomyr region. The Bayer international concern, which previously announced an investment of €60M, revealed the details of its priority investment areas in Ukraine. The announced investments are aimed at expanding th... #agroUkraine #Bayer #investments #SeedPlant #UkrainianCorn #Zhytomyr
This season, exports of Ukrainian grains and oilseeds may fall to an eight-year low. In August and September, Ukraine usually ships grain actively in all directions. But this year, ports and oil storage facilities are empty due to several factors that have affected the logistics marke... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #DanubePort #GrainCorridors #Ukrainiangrain
Will Ukrainian farmers benefit from joining the EU? Ukrainian farmers can receive €7.6-€13.5B per year within the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) framework. This could create a severe fiscal burden on other member states, which is an argument aga... #agroUkraine #CommonAgriculturalPolicy #EuropeanIntegration #FarmersUkraine
Land reform in Ukraine has been launched, and in the coming years land prices may increase by 20% – Ministry of Agrarian Policy. Since the land market’s opening in 2021, the price of land in Ukraine has increased from ₴39,000/hectare to ₴46,000/hectare in 2024, and its value may increase by approximately 20% in the follow... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #FarmLandSale #ProZorro #UkraineLandBank #VitaliyKoval
Analysts name the main systemic challenges of Ukraine’s agrarian European integration. In May 2024, the EU Council extended the duty-free trade regime for Ukraine until June 2025. Until then, the parties will update the Association Agreement and establish the expected terms of trade bef... #agroUkraine #EuropeanIntegration #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineEUNegotiations #Ukrainianfarmers
Drought in Ukraine threatens the next grain harvest. Drought in the Black Sea region, particularly in Ukraine, has slowed the sowing of winter crops, which make up a significant part of Ukraine’s grain production. According to the industry experts... #agroUkraine #DroughtinUkraine #SowingUkraine #Ukrainianfarmers #Ukrainiangrain
Leasing of Ukraine’s state lands next year will generate ₴8B for the budget. Through the Land Bank’s implementation, Ukraine will receive several billion hryvnias from the lease of state lands next year, which will contribute to the country’s economic development, ... #AgroLand #AgroLandLeasing #agroUkraine #UkraineLandBank #VitaliyKoval
Ukraine loses $11.2B annually due to mined territories; experts suggest raising funds for demining through bonds. According to a study by the Anthony Blair Institute, the safe demining of Ukraine will require $34.6B and extraordinary innovation. At the same time, at the current funding level and with the use of t... #AgriculturalBond #agroUkraine #AnthonyBlair #DeminingUkraine #HowardBuffett #UkraineEconomy
Ukrainian agricultural producers will have access to the financial resources of the IFAD. The Ukrainian Parliament adopted a decision on Ukraine’s accession to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). This will give Ukrainian agricultural producers access to new financia... #AgroInnovations #agroUkraine #IFAD #Ukrainianfarmers
A Ukrainian milk and sugar producer is improving its financial indicators: What is driving this improvement? The first half of the year’s turnover for Astarta Agricultural Holding, the country’s largest milk producer and a leading sugar producer, is €321M, 12% more than in the same period last year. Th... #AgricultureUkraine #agroUkraine #Astarta #farmingukraine #SugarProductionUkraine
The EU begins preparing for a trade and agricultural policy change in the wake of Ukraine’s accession. Hungary will continue to maintain its ban on importing Ukrainian farm products but allow their transit and will lobby the EU to develop rules that consider Hungarian farmers’ interests. Deputy ... #agroUkraine #EUUkraineNegotiations #Kachka
Ukraine’s agricultural sector generates 19% of the country’s GDP, exports 70% of its products, and can feed 400 million people. In 2010-2021, the Ukrainian agricultural sector made a significant leap in development, employing 17% of Ukrainians who produce 19% of GDP, with 70% of its products exported, which is one of the highe... #agroUkraine #grainexport #UKraineFarming
The heat will destroy up to 20% of this year’s harvest, but high prices can compensate Ukrainian farmers for this. As analysts note, due to the abnormal summer heat most farmers expect a drop in crop yields compared to previous years. A new wave of abnormal weather threatens Ukraine this month. Farmers admit that... #AbnormalWeather #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainianfarmers
Pritzker names the most attractive sectors of the Ukrainian economy for investors. Penny Pritzker, the US special representative, answered a question about the economic sectors that are ready for investment now: “Ukraine’s agriculture feeds 400 million people in the worl... #agroUkraine #DefenseIndustryUkraine #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #PennyPritzker #UkraineEconomy #UkraineTechnology
The 2024 harvest is significantly faster than last year’s pace; 75% of the early crops have already been harvested. In Ukraine, 75% of early crops have already been harvested, from which they expect 27 million tons of grain and about four million tons of rapeseed, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy reported. It is... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #GrainHarvest #Ukrainiangrain
The USAID AGRO program provides 50% co-financing for agricultural processing development projects. The USAID AGRO program offers co-financing for 15 projects aimed at developing the processing of agricultural products in Ukraine. It is expected that the financed projects will improve the processing... #AgroBusinessUkraine #agroUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #USAID
The grain market has a unique situation: the prices of rapeseed and wheat are growing and almost exceed global prices. Trader’s demand for rapeseed and wheat is growing. At the same time, domestic prices for these crops are close to global market prices and almost exceed them, said Ivan Dimov, the founder of DMV... #agroUkraine #DMVGroup #GrainPrices #Rapeseed #Ukrainiangrain #Wheat
Due to the war, Ukrainian farmers have already lost more than $50B, and the heat will deprive Ukraine of 5 million tons of harvest. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the agricultural infrastructure of Ukraine has suffered losses of more than $50B, said the Deputy Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, Denys ... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #DenysMarchuk #GrainHarvestUkraine #Harvest2024
The Agricultural Investment Fund expects that leasing state land will bring ₴1B this year. The Agrarian Investment Fund state enterprise manages 104,000 hectares of state agricultural land. According to the foundation’s chairman, Yaroslav Yaroslavskyi, the fund’s task is to gene... #AgrarianInvestmentFund #AgroLand #AgroLandRental #agroUkraine #LandMarketUkraine
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy improves its harvest forecast by 5%. The Ministry of Agriculture revised the forecast for the future harvest, increasing it from 74 to 77 million tons, of which 56 million tons will be grains and legumes and 21 million tons oil crops, sa... #agroUkraine #GrainHarvest #GrainHarvestUkraine #TarasVysotskyi
Ukraine can produce up to 10 billion cubic meters of biogas annually if $20B is invested in the industry. The head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Taras Vysotskyi said: “Ukraine can potentially produce up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year from available waste, but this would require a f... #agroUkraine #BioGas #BiomethanePlant #EnergyInvestments #TarasVysotskyi
Ukrainian agricultural holding, owned by the government of Saudi Arabia, purchases an elevator in the Lviv region. Ukrainian agricultural holding, Continental Farmers Group, which belongs to the Saudi state fund Salic, bought a new elevator, designed to work with all grain and oil crops and able to ship up to 45 w... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #ContinentalFarmersGroup #GrainElevator #GrainStorage
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy summed up the results of the marketing year: The yield increased to a record level. Taras Vysotskyi, the Head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, said that in terms of production volumes, the marketing year 2023/2024 showed a record yield. He noted: “In 2023, the average grain ... #agroexportukraine #AgroHarvestUkraine #agroUkraine #TarasVysotskyi #Ukrainiangrain
One of Ukraine’s largest agricultural holdings keeps investing during the war. The Deputy Director of MHP, Serhii Dobrohorsky, said that despite the war the company is investing in its development: the holding purchased grain wagons compatible with European track and increased i... #AgriculturalMachinery #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #GrainElevator #MHP
Next season, Ukraine will export more than 60% of its agricultural products. Currently, exports are 3% higher than last year. In the 2024-2025 marketing year (July-June), Ukraine will be able to export more than 60% of the agricultural products it produces, despite constant shelling of critical infrastructure and problems wi... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #Harvest2024 #TarasVysotskyi
Ukraine has already collected 100 000 tons of grain from the new crop; this season, 56 million tons will be threshed. Head of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy, Taras Vysotsky, said that as of June 20, 50,000 tons of the 2024 harvest had been harvested, and this week the figure has exceeded 100,000 tons. The main c... #agroUkraine #Harvest2024 #TarasVysotskyi #Ukrainianfarmers #Ukrainiangrain
How has the war affected the profitability of agricultural production in Ukraine? According to the Ministry of Agricultural Policy, since July 2023 the profitability of the main crop types has been steadily improving. However, grain production has not yet broken even, and the profi... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #LivestockProducts #OilCrops #Ukrainiangrain
The basis of the Ukrainian negotiating position during its accession to the EU will be a development strategy for the agricultural sector. The Deputy Prime Minister for European integration, Olga Stefanishyna, noted at the Strategy for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas through 2030 presentation that the agricultural sector i... #agroUkraine #EuropeanIntegration #OlgaStefanishyna #UkraineAccessionToEU #UkraineEU
Ukraine’s largest chicken producer sees its profits decrease by 67%, and losses from the war reach $10M. MHP Agroholding, in the first quarter of the year, earned $16M in net profit, which is less than a third of the result from the first quarter of 2023 ($49M), according to a report from the London Stoc... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #ChickenProduction #MHP
Ukraine will export some agricultural products to the EU under new rules. Acting Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi said that on June 5, updated rules for duty-free trade in agricultural products with the EU will come into effect and will be valid for one year.... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FreeTradeAgreement #SugarExport #TarasVysotskyi #TradeRestriction
Farmers and lawyers have most often closed their businesses during the war. Agricultural enterprises represent the largest number of closed businesses during the war in Ukraine, with 1,261 companies from 2022 to the first quarter of 2024 inclusive. This is followed by wholesa... #agroUkraine #businessinukraine #LegalCompanies #UkraineBusinessActivity #Ukrainianfarmers
Ukraine unveils the Land Bank project, allowing farmers to lease state lands through auctions. The State Property Fund (SPFU) presented its Land Bank project, which allows farmers to lease state land transparently and competitively through Prozorro.Sales online auctions. The starting price for ... #AgroLandRental #agroUkraine #LandMarket #ProZorro #SPFU #UkraineLandBank
What happened in Ukraine’s land market in April? Analysts from the KSE Agrocenter notes that Ukraine’s agricultural land market continued to grow in April 2024. Purchase and sale agreement volumes were the largest since the beginning of the full-sca... #AgrolandPrices #agroUkraine #FarmLandReform #FarmLandSale #LandMarket #UkraineLand
How has the war changed Ukraine’s agricultural sector? At the Zmiiv vegetable factory in the Kharkiv region, cucumbers and tomatoes are no longer grown; instead, borscht vegetables and berries are planted in open ground. The company will plant 30 hectares... #agroUkraine #Kharkiv #Mykolaiv #VegetableExport #VegetableGrowing
How will land prices in Ukraine grow? The growth in Ukraine’s agricultural land prices over the next five years will be no more than 100%, according to Dmytro Skornyakov, CEO of HarvEast. “As long as land in Ukraine is a means of pr... #AgroLand #AgrolandPrices #agroUkraine #FarmLandSale #HarvEast
Experts outline the EU’s fears: Ukraine can potentially turn the agricultural market in European countries upside down. Agricultural expert and a founder of Zeminvest Oleksandr Chornyi emphasized that Ukraine has extraordinary agrarian assets that places it among global leaders. “Ukraine ranks sixth in the world ... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #EUfarmers #EuropeanIntegration #LandMarketUkraine #Zeminvest
EU accession will strengthen Ukraine and the entire bloc. Olga Stefanishyna, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, is convinced that Ukraine will become stronger as a full member of the EU. At the same time, Ukraine... #agroUkraine #EUEconomy #EuropeanIntegration #OlgaStefanishyna #UkraineAccessionToEU #UkraineEconomy #UkraineEU #Ukrainianlogistics
Ukraine’s accession to the EU will solve the food problem and stimulate the development of the bloc’s economy. Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said that Ukraine’s accession to the EU will solve the food problem and “is of fundamental importance” for his country. He also explained tha... #agroUkraine #EuropeanIntegration #Migration #PauloRangel #Portugal #UkraineEU
Due to the non-taxation of 40% of the grain harvest, Ukraine has lost billions of dollars. Against the background of the war, Ukrainian farmers are resorting to “optimization” of grain taxation, which is why about 40% of the grain harvest avoids it altogether. Over the past two ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #TarasKachka #TaxesinUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
USAID is investing $250M in the Ukrainian agricultural sector, which will increase exports by $1.5B and attract $500M in private investment. Deputy Administrator of USAID Isobel Coleman said: “I am pleased to present the launch of the USAID Harvest program, which is directly aimed at investing in the future of the agricultural sector... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #IsobelColeman #USAID
The Ukrainian government has identified the most promising areas for investment and offers state support programs. Last year, despite the war, foreign investors invested $4.25B in Ukraine’s economy, said Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko. “The government, together with the private sector, has identi... #agroUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #UkraineEconomy #UkraineFacility #YuliyaSvyridenko
The largest Ukrainian chicken producer has increased its market share and decided to acquire a meat processing company for €14M. MHP Agroholding will acquire 100% of corporate rights in a Ukrainian meat processing company for €14M and has already made an initial payment of €3.5M, entitling it to 24.9% of the relevant corporate ... #agroUkraine #BusinessInvestments #ChickenProduction #MHP #PerutninaPtuj #PoultryUkraine
In the first quarter, the Ukrainian land market’s capitalization increased by $5.1B. KSE Agrocenter analysts stated that this was primarily due to the opening of the market to legal entities on January 1 of this year. It is noted that the former “moratorium lands” are in t... #agroUkraine #Capitalization #FarmLand #LandMarketUkraine #LandSalesUkraine
The EC has started working to integrate the Ukrainian agricultural sector into the EU in preparation for accession negotiations. The European Commission has started explanatory meetings with Ukrainian representatives regarding the implementation of official screening within the section of negotiations on agriculture and the dev... #agroUkraine #EUexpansion #EuropeanIntegration #KatarinaMathernova #TradeLiberalization #UkraineEU
A Ukrainian agricultural holding will invest $15M into its modernization and plans to increase its agricultural land by 20%. Agroholding TAS Agro plans to invest $15M in the modernization of outdated equipment, the introduction of moisture-saving technologies, and the abandonment of inefficient soil plowing, said the head o... #AgroInnovations #AgroLand #agroUkraine #ModernizationUkraine #TASagro
In the first quarter, the volume of Ukrainian agricultural exports dropped by 4%. In the first quarter of 2024, Ukraine’s export of agri-food products amounted to about $6.5B, which is 4% less than in the first quarter of 2023. It is noted that revenues from the sale of meat ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #HoneyExport #MeatExport #UkraineFoodExport
Instead of buying, businesses are selling agricultural land in Ukraine. Ukrainian companies sold at least 1,283 hectares as of March 18, 2024. Since the beginning of 2024, at least 342 land plots have been sold. Since the land market was opened for legal entities, despite... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #FarmLandSale #LandMarketUkraine #LandReform
Ukraine’s accession to the EU will trigger a reform of the bloc’s Unified Agricultural Policy, said the Minister of Agriculture of Poland, Czeslaw Siekierski. “Ukrainian authorities will soon start negotiations on joining the EU. This process will force the EU to reform the Unified Agricu... #AgroEU #agroUkraine #AssociationwithEU #CzesławSiekierski #EUfarmers #UkraineEU
Due to EU restrictions, Ukraine will lose more than €300M, and the supply of sugar, poultry, and eggs to the EU market will stop. Ukraine’s losses due to the EU’s introduction of a new protective mechanism against its agricultural products, which will become effective June 6, will approximately amount to €315M. The introdu... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #TradeRestriction #UkraineEconomy #UkraineExport
