What position did Ukraine hold among globabl exporters of agricultural products before the full-scale war? As KSE-Agrocenter analysts noted, over the past two decades Ukraine has gradually become the world’s main supplier of agricultural products. Before the full-scale invasion, agriculture produced ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GDPinUkraine #UkraineEconomy #Ukrainiangrain
The war has caused $10.3B in damages to the agricultural sector and $70B in economic losses. The Russian invasion damaged $10.3B of tangible assets belonging to Ukraine’s agro-industrial complex, with damage to agricultural machinery accounting for almost 57% of all losses, or $5.8B. In... #AgriculturalMachinery #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #GrainStorage #WarLosses
Ukraine must “cut” its agricultural sector to join the EU. As Politico writes, tariffs on imported Ukrainian agricultural products, which are currently under discussion, are necessary to correct the “inequality” in the trade balance between Ukrain... #agroUkraine #AndrzejHalicki #AssociationwithEU #EUfarmers #UkraineEU
Ukraine’s agro-industry leaders increased their income by 35% over the last year. The total income of the ten leading companies in the agricultural sector increased by 35% in 2023, according to the Opentabatot Index. Market leaders earned almost ₴86.6B, a third more than in 2022 an... #agroUkraine #Kernel #LNZgroup #MHP #Ukrprominvest
How the state supports the agricultural sector in 2024: a list of programs. This year, the government expanded the list of programs designed to support farmers who have been working in conditions of war for the third year in a row and, despite these difficulties, continue to ... #AffordableLoans #agroUkraine #AidForFarmers #UkraineFacility #Ukrainianfarmers
The UN’s FAO has failed to fulfill its promises to supply seeds, affecting Ukraine’s sowing campaign. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine and agricultural associations are unhappy with the work of the UN’s representative office of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Ukraine. R... #agroUkraine #AidForFarmers #FAO #Sowing2024 #Ukrainianfarmers
Due to export issues with the EU, Ukraine is reorienting its sugar exports: 20% was purchased by three African countries. Since the beginning of March, Ukrainian sugar producers began actively selling their products on the African continent. This alternative direction appeared following active lobbying to ban the sale of... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #SugarExport #SugarProduction
The government has named five key sectors of Ukraine as future EU members. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal singles out five sectors – defense, energy, agriculture, raw materials, and digital – in which Ukraine hopes to declare itself a future member of th... #agroUkraine #AssociationwithEU #DenysShmyhal #energyukraine #UkraineEconomy #UkrainianEnterprises
Ukraine’s integration into the EU will change the EU’s agricultural support system. According to Ukraine’s trade representative, Taras Kachka, the decision of the Committee of the European Parliament to extend duty-free trade for Ukrainian agricultural products was a chance to ... #AgroEU #agroUkraine #EuropeanIntegration #FreeTradeAgreement #TarasKachka
What industries in Ukraine do investors consider promising during the war? In the conditions of Russian aggression, Ukraine is attractive for investors who work with so-called distressed assets. These investors are willing to buy risky assets very cheaply, expecting potentia... #agroUkraine #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #UkraineEconomy
Ukrainian agrarians predict an 8% smaller harvest of grain and oil crops this year, hence a drop in exports. The Ukrainian Grain Association predicts that the 2024 harvest will amount to 76.1 million tons of grain and oilseed, which is 6.5 million tons, or 8%, less than last year. A potential decrease in the... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvest #Harvest2024 #Ukrainiangrain
The Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine assesses the profitability of the farm sector. In 2024, profitability will increase for all grain and oil crops. This is forecast provides that the situation with security and exports utilizing sea transport will not become more complicated, and t... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #GrainHarvest
Reduction in production and closure of enterprises: How do EU export restrictions threaten the Ukrainian agricultural sector? According to the top manager of the Poultry Union of Ukraine, Serhiy Karpenko, the EU is the primary market for selling several agro-food products from Ukraine. The EU market remains essential for the... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #PoultryFarmUkraine #SerhiyKarpenko #TradeVisaFree
Poland wants to introduce additional taxes and quotas for Ukrainian products. Poland is considering the introduction of an 8% value added tax on oil and restrictions on sugar imports from Ukraine. Michal Kołodziejczak, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Poland, has supported the... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #MichalKolodziejczak #TradeAgreement #TradeVisaFree
A Ukrainian agriculture company is constructing an elevator using green technologies. Agrosem received a €1M, five-year loan from Raiffeisen Bank to build a grain elevator with a capacity of 22,000 tons. The facility at the MOST Logistic Terminal will allow farmers to transship 400,000... #Agrosem #agroUkraine #GrainElevator #RaiffeisenBankUkraine
Which countries imported the most Ukrainian agricultural products? Last year, Romania topped the ranking of the largest importers of Ukrainian farm products for the first time, buying $2.87B of them. This coutnry’s share in the domestic export of agricultural product... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainEmbargo #UkrainianFlour
Here are the restrictions for Ukraine in the new trade agreement with the EU. The latest draft agreement on trade preferences between Ukraine and the EU, which the European Commission plans to extend until June 6, 2025, provides restrictions on exporting Ukrainian sugar, poultr... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainEmbargo #TradeAgreement #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Ukraine needs to increase vegetable storage capacity by 60%. Analysts note that according to pre-war estimates, there were 493 non-specialized vegetable warehouses and 437 potato warehouses in Ukraine. Capacities were concentrated in areas with high production.... #AgroImportUkraine #agroUkraine #VegetableStorageFacility
Ukrainian entrepreneurs will be punished for violating the rules for exporting agricultural products to some EU countries. As Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solskyi said during an online meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Kyryll Vatev, the government has adopted a resolution that improves the rules ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #KyryllVatev #MykolaSolsky #UkrainianGrainTransit
Despite record processing volumes, Ukraine’s largest sugar producer’s net profit declines 10%. In the last production year, Astarta processed 2.7 million tons of sugar beets, grown both independently and by agricultural partners, and produced 377,000 tons of sugar at its five sugar factories. T... #AgroHarvestUkraine #AgroholdingAstarta #agroUkraine #SugarProductionUkraine
The US improves its forecast for Ukrainian sunflower oil exports, and Kernel increases production by 24%. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) increased its forecast for the exportation of vegetable oils from Ukraine in the current trading season to 6.4 million tons. It is noted that sunflower oil will... #agroUkraine #Kernel #SunflowerOil #SunflowerOilExports #usda
The second stage of land reform has had the opposite of the intended effect: businesses are not buying but selling hectares. Beginning in January 2024, the Ukrainian land market is open to legal entities. Companies now can purchase up to 10,000 hectares of land officially. However, companies that already own many plots are ... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #LandMarketUkraine #LandReform #LandSalesUkraine #Svitanok
Ukraine’s largest grain market operator is asking USAID to expand its railroad fleet. The Nibulon company wants to expand its railcar fleet by 250 units and has asked USAID to finance this initiative. Mykhailo Rizak, the grain trader’s top manager, recalled that in 2023, USAID helped N... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #nibulon #UkrainianRailways #USAID
Ukraine remains one of the top three suppliers of agricultural products to the EU. According to the volume of agricultural imports to the EU in the period from January to October 2023, Ukraine remains in third place with an indicator of €12.843B (+ €371M, or +3% compared to the same... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Businesses have entered the land market, buying 68 plots. Since the beginning of the year, when the second stage of land market reform began, legal entities have already purchased 68 plots, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy reported. We note that that the ... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #FarmLandSale #LandMarketUkraine
Ukrainian farmers earned 77% less from the new crop than was expected. EBITDA for major crops harvested in 2022 was $47 per hectare in December 2023, while their forecasted value was $206 in February, Agrohub research shows. The actual result is less than one-fourth of t... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #FarmersProfit #FarmersUkraine
Ukraine needs to build 150 vegetable storage facilities to ensure food security. The construction of dozens of modern warehouses for vegetables will allow Ukraine to become independent from product imports, especially in the spring, said Dmytro Solomchuk, a Verkhovna Rada Committe... #agroUkraine #DmytroSolomchuk #FoodSecurity #VegetableStorageFacility
Epicentr Agro has started construction of a plant to produce fertilizers. The Epicentr Agro holding, part of the Epicenter K group of companies, has begun constructing a plant to produce a urea-ammonia mixture and liquid complex fertilizers in the Vinnytsia region. Fertiliz... #agroUkraine #EpicentrK #EpicentrKAgro #FertilizerProductionUkraine
In the current trading season, Ukraine’s agricultural exports decreased by 27%, and farmers’ annual losses will reach $3B. From July 1 to December 15, Ukraine exported about 24 million tons of grain, oilseeds, and their processed products, which is nine million tons less than in the corresponding period last year, accordi... #agroexportukraine #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #OlegKhomenko
Astarta invests $60M in the construction of a soybean processing plant. Astarta Agroholding, the largest sugar producer in Ukraine, received a $60M loan from state-owned Oschadbank to construct a soybean processing plant in the Poltava region. It is clarified that the cre... #AgroholdingAstarta #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #SoybeansUkraine
Ukraine’s largest agricultural holding is expanding in 2023 and will investing in processing and export capabilities. Kernel acquired vegetable oil transshipment assets at the port of Chornomorsk for $19.4M to increase the sustainability of its oilseed processing business. This provides storage capacity for 105,000 t... #agroUkraine #ChornomorskSeaPort #KernelGroup #SunflowerOilExports
Ukraine has collected 78.7 million tons of new harvest and increased its agricultural exports to the EU by 11%. As of the third week of December, farmers in all regions of Ukraine have threshed 78.7 million tons of grain and oil crops: 57.86 million tons and 20.76 million, respectively. Compared to data from th... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine
After joining the EU, agricultural subsidies for Ukraine will reach €70-90B; Orban is afraid that Hungary will be left without EU money. According to estimates from the Institute of German Economics, the financial consequences of Ukraine’s full membership in the MFF (Multiannual Financial Framework) for 2021-2027 are estimated at... #AgroSubsidies #agroUkraine #EUfarmers #EuropeanIntegration #VictorOrban
Ukrainian enterprises are increasing oil crop processing. As reported by the agriculture oil association, in the 2023/24 season an increase in the internal processing of oil crops by 3.5 million tons is predicted, with the increase coming from sunflower seed... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #SunflowerOil
Ukrainian farmers are restoring one of the industry’s sectors that was destroyed by the aggressor. Despite the war, Ukrainian farmers have made progress in restoring the volume of vegetable production, which was previously concentrated in the southern part of the Kherson region, which is now tempor... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #VegetableGrowing
Ukrainian agricultural exports will become a cornerstone in the process of European integration. Ukrainian producers of goods constantly suffer from pressure from several EU countries, which try to limit the supply of their agricultural products in various ways, said the deputy head of the All-Uk... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #DenysMarchuk #EuropeanIntegration
Ukraine’s output from the export of agricultural products fell by 7%. In January-November, Ukraine exported agricultural food products worth $19.637B, 7% less than in the corresponding period of 2022, according to the analysis from the Institute of Agrarian Economics. A... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #BorderBlockade #GrainCorridors
Due to Russian aggression this year, Ukraine exported 26.4% less grain. The actual volume of grain exports by Ukraine since the beginning of the 2023/2024 marketing year as of December 13 is 14.697 million tons, which is 26.4% less than in the same period last year. Meanw... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
One of Ukraine’s largest agricultural exporters lost $400M due to the war, while another managed to make $300M in profit. According to the owner of Nibulon, Andrii Vadaturskyi, the company suffered more than $400M in losses and will file a lawsuit against the Russian Federation. Currently, only 32% of Nibulon’s pre-war c... #AgroInvestments #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #Kernel #nibulon
Ukrainian farmers recorded increased production in almost all agricultural sectors despite the war. However, it is noted that Ukrainian agriculture has not yet recovered to 2021’s level.I In 2023, Ukraine’s grain production will be 60.8 million tons, 10% more than the previous year. Production of oi... #AgroHarvestUkraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine
This year, Ukraine grew 6% of the world’s grain production. Thhe Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) notes that in 2023 farmers produced 81 million tons of gross grain harvest. “Ukraine is located on such soils that we depend on weather factors more than t... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
A €70M greenhouse complex using unique energy-efficient technologies will be built in the Lviv region. Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of the Lviv Administration, said the project will be a complex of greenhouses that will use geothermal heat from the Earth’s depths. There are only a few such projects... #agroUkraine #Farmers #GreenhouseUkraine #MaksymKozytskyi #TriosanHolding
Ukraine’s allies provide more support for energy infrastructure and agriculture. USAID and the Energy Community Secretariat signed an agreement on the US’ €23M grant contribution to the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine. Germany also plans to provide €300M to help Ukraine’s energy se... #agroUkraine #energyukraine #MartinJäger #SupportUkraine #Ukrenergo #USAID #worldbank
Ukraine’s agrarians oppose further reform of the land market. Agrarians called on the parliament to postpone increased land sale limits starting January 1, 2024. The sale of land to big business should be suspended for the duration of the war and two years after... #AgroLand #agroUkraine #FarmLandSale #LandMarketUkraine
The Kyiv region increases its grain storage capacity, and the Donetsk region agricultural sector has been revived. The Kyiv region put the first elevator into operation, with a total storage volume of 12,000 tons. Meanwhile, 23 livestock enterprises are currently operating in Donetsk region. Eight enterprises are ... #AgroBusinessUkraine #agroUkraine #farmAnimalsUkraine #GrainElevator
A third of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine have closed due to the war. The situation that has developed in Ukraine and the world is unfavorable for Ukrainian farm producers, who are forced to cease their activities, said the general director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Con... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #PavloKoval
Poland considers Ukraine’s accession to the EU a challenge. Ukraine’s accession to the European Union will challenge European agriculture, including Polish agriculture, Polish Minister of Agriculture Robert Telus said. “These are challenges for EU ... #AgroEU #agroUkraine #RobertTelus #UkraineAccessionToEU #UkraineEU
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has changed the geography of its agricultural exports. Since the beginning of the full-scale war with Russia, Ukraine has been forced to change the geography of its agricultural exports, as a result of which the European share in January-October 2023 reac... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #BlackSeaCorridor #GrainCorridors #Ukrainiangrainexport
Despite the war, Rivne farmers are building new farms and processing plants. According to Igor Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Regional State Administration, despite the second challenging year in wartime conditions, agriculture in the Rivne region is developing, and farmer... #AgricultureUkraine #AgroInnovations #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine
Italian businesses have invested in the construction of a dry port in Transcarpathia to export agricultural products to the EU. The Horonda Platform, a multimodal logistics hub for the export of grain and financed by Italian investors, will be constructed in the village of Horonda in the Mukachevo district. According to Viktor... #AgroHub #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #ViktorMykyta
