One of the largest agricultural holdings is investing $10M in a new grain terminal on the Danube. Kernel plans to build a new transshipment terminal, Development Reni Terminal, in the port Reni on the Danube by the end of 2023. The company reported that the terminal will be built on a plot of land... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #GrainTerminal #Kernel
Due to the occupation, 24% of arable land in Ukraine will remain unsown. Accordingly, the gross collection of agricultural products will drop by approximately 25% from the pre-war level, said First Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi. He reminded observe... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #SowingUkraine #TarasVysotskyi
The Netherlands allocates €100M for agricultural companies, and Spain and the EBRD provide another €100M in guarantees for Ukraine’s food security. The funds will also go towards the purchase of generators to ease the course of the next winter, said Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher. So, €40M is targeted as financing for agricult... #agroUkraine #LiesjeSchreinemacher #LoansforFarmers #NetherlandsAid
Farmers warn of further product price increases in Ukraine. Yield indicators in 2023 will be negatively affected by the reduction of cultivated areas, increases in fertilizer prices, the mobilization of farmers, and the reorientation from grain crops to oilsee... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #IvanSlobodianyk
Foreign companies will invest in Ukraine’s agricultural sector if they have war-risk insurance. The Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy, Denys Bashlyk, believes that foreigners will invest in Ukraine’s agricultural sector of Ukraine only with the provision of war-risk insurance for businesses. Ba... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #DenysBashlyk #RobertHabek
The World Bank has restructured $132M as soft loans for Ukrainian farmers. The WB, within the framework of the Acceleration of Private Investments in the Agriculture of Ukraine program, which began in 2019 with a total volume of $200M, will allow the use of the remaining $13... #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #WorldBankLoan
The WB is considering additional assistance to restore Ukraine’s agricultural sector. At a meeting with the Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Mykola Solskyi, and the leadership of the World Bank, discussions were held regarding both the creation of new programs and financing ... #agroUkraine #GrantsForFarmers #MykolaSolsky
Ukrainian scientists predict that two years of war will reduce the grain harvest by 60%. The forecasted gross harvest of grain in 2023 may amount to 34 million tons, which is 37% less than the figure for 2022 and 60% less than 2021, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine sai... #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
After the war, Ukraine’s agricultural sector will recover to pre-war levels in two to three years. Ukraine’s agricultural sector is multi-sectoral, and it will take more than one year to restore production to pre-war levels, said Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi. The recovery ... #agroUkraine #TarasVysotskyi #UkraineAgriculturalEnterprises
The Ukrainian government has allocated grants worth UAH 321M for agricultural enterprises. The Cabinet of Ministers allocated UAH 321M ($8.8M) in grants for the creation or development of processing enterprises and the establishment of gardens within the framework of the YeRobota project. A... #agroUkraine #GrantsForFarmers #YuliyaSvyridenko
An office of the UN Food Organization will open in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the creation of an FAO Project Office, which will work toward the provision of technical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy reported. Thi... #agroUkraine #FAOOfficeInUkraine #UNFoodOrganization
International experts will help Ukraine to record evidence of Ukrainian agricultural product looting. Ukraine’s Ministry of Agricultural Policy and the International Technical Assistance Project Expedite Justice (PEJ) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The purpose of the project is to collect a... #agroUkraine #GrainstolenfromUkraine #MykolaSolsky
The EU has launched support programs for small agricultural producers in Ukraine. The State Agrarian Register continues to accept applications within the framework of the new UAH 1.5B (€50M) assistance program for small agrarian producers, financed with EU support, the Ministry of ... #agroUkraine #GrantsForFarmers #Ukrainianfarmers
The export of Ukrainian dairy products increases by 32%. In the first half of 2022, Ukrainian dairy product exporters had to adapt to the new wartime working conditions: most logistics routes underwent changes, and production and processing in some regions ... #agroUkraine #DairyproductionUkraine #UkrainedairyExport
Due to the Russian invasion, agricultural sector losses have reached about $20B. The KSE Vice President for Economic Education is convinced that the Ukrainian agro sector is suffering significant losses due to the Russian invasion, reported Espresso. According to him, “If w... #AgricultureDuringWar #AgricultureUkraine #agroUkraine
The Agrarian Fund has started purchasing grain for this year’s harvest. JSC Agrarian Fund has made advance payments secured by the 2022 grain harvest, and the minimum batch is 100 tons of wheat. Agricultural enterprises are working under challenging conditions due to the... #AgricultureUkraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvest
This year Ukraine plans to plant 70% of agricultural land. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine predicts that 70% of available land can be sown in Ukraine this year, according to a pessimistic scenario. “According to the pessimistic forecast, it ... #agroUkraine #sowingseason #Ukrainesowingseason
The government supports establishing a fund for a partial guarantee of loans in agriculture. The creation of the fund will provide state guarantees for small and medium-sized farms. In addition, the government established the authorized capital of the fund at UAH 200M ($7.15M). Earlier, Minis... #AgroFund #AgroFundUkraine #agroUkraine
After introducing the agricultural land market, investment in the agricultural sector increased by 30%. Since the launch of the land market, as of mid-December last year, we in Ukraine have received 66,000 land purchase and sale agreements. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, “this is just the be... #AgroInvestments #agroUkraine #АгроУкраїна
Ukrainian grain exports up more than 20%. According to the State Customs Service of Ukraine, since the beginning of the 2021/22 marketing year, Ukraine exported 35.07M metric tons of grains and pulses, up by 7.502M metric tons YOY, reported t... #agroUkraine #grainexport #GrainExport2022 #UkraineGrainExport
In 2-3 years, the price of agricultural land may increase to UAH 60,000 per hectare. According to the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy, Taras Vysotsky, the price per hectare is 38,000 UAH due to small land sales. Foreigners and large landowners do not buy land bypassing the la... #AgrolandPrices #agroUkraine #FarmLandUkraine #UkraineLand
Exports and imports of agricultural products in 2021 increased by 22% The foreign trade turnover of agricultural products and foodstuffs for 11 months of 2021 increased by 22% compared to the corresponding period of 2020, to $31.3 bln, which is 24.7% of the total foreig... #agroUkraine #UkraineFoodExport #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Revenue from the export of walnuts fell by 20%. In the last nut season (October 2020 – September 2021), income from walnut exports decreased by 20% compared to the previous season, to $98.6 mln. Sales of walnut kernels to Turkey declined by 7... #agroUkraine #WalnutExport #WalnutUkraine
The Ukrainian stand was presented at Istanbul’s Export Gateway to Africa exhibition. For the first time, the exhibition presented a Ukrainian collective stand dedicated to agricultural food products of Ukraine, with the participation of 9 domestic companies (exporters of sunflower oil... #agroUkraine #ExportGatewaytoAfrica
The main principles of the Partial Loan Guarantee Fund to farmers was presented by the Ministry of Agriculture. It will allocate UAH 24 bln ($900 mln) to finance farmers. The Fund’s authorized capital is UAH 3 bln ($112 mln), said the Minister of Agriculture o... #agroUkraine #farmingukraine #LoanGuaranteeFund
The first electronic land auction to be held in Kyiv. The city authorities made this announcement. The head of the Kyiv Digital Transformation Administration, Petro Olenych, said that the Kyiv administration stated that it was possible to update the info... #agroUkraine #LandAuction #LandAuctioninUkraine
The Parliament of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, has unblocked the signing of the law on the loan guarantee fund for farmers. The Verkhovna Rada rejected resolutions repealing the decision to pass a Partial Guarantee Fund for Agriculture law. According to the bill, farmers who cultivate up to 500 hectares will have guarantee... #AgroFund #agroUkraine #GuaranteeFundforAgriculture #LoanGuaranteeFund
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 ... #agroUkraine #UkraineAgrarianFund
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. #agroUkraine #ValuationofLand #valuationoflandUkraine
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, ... #agroUkraine #AppleHarvest #UkraineAppleHarvest #UKraineFarming
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... #agroUkraine #GovernmentsupportsAgro #UkraineAgroIndustrialComplex
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... #agroUkraine #CultivationinUkraine #FarmLandUkraine
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,&... #agroUkraine #ForwardContracts #GrainAssociation
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... #agroUkraine #EggExportfromUkraine #EggProduction #EggProductioninUkraine
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.... #agroUkraine #Oilseedsharvest #UkraineHarvest2021
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... #Agroexhibition #AgroExpo2021 #Agroindustrialexhibition #agroUkraine
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... #agroUkraine #CerealExportfromUkraine #Legumesexport #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
The serious challenge posed by desertification and lack of proper irrigation systems. Due to desertification, the lack of investment and poor technologies, 20% of Ukraine’s arable land is degraded and unproductive. Farmers have been forced to get creative as the old and under-maintaine... #agroUkraine #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
After being launched on July 1, 2020, the land market reform is showing results. As of August 25, 9,072 agreements have been concluded within its framework. Transactions for 19,356 hectares of land were registered. Most land plots were sold in Poltava region (2,284 ha), Kharkiv re... #agroUkraine #Landmarketreform #LandMarketUkraine #Ukrainelandforsale
Ukraine’s top 25 agribusinesses control 9% of the nation’s cultivated farm land, according to a survey by Concorde Capital. The top five are: Kernel — 510,000 hectares; Ukrlandfarming — 475,000 hectares; MHP — 370,000; Agroprosperis — 300,000 hectares; and ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine
To turn around Ukraine’s declining dairy production, the government should extend $200 million a year in support to the sector, Vadym Chaharovsky, head of Ukraine’s Union of Dairy Enterprises, told reporters on Tuesday. By contrast, he said, the EU’s dairy subsidies amount to €10 billion a year. Ukraine also should stop import... #agroUkraine #DairyproductionUkraine
New markets opened this year for Ukraine’s dairy exports: Argentina, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Libya. Last year, Ukraine doubled imports of dairy products, to $304 million, while seeing exports fall by 17%, to $226.6 million. #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #UkrainedairyExport
Two thirds of Ukraine’s farmland is at risk of drought due to climate change, Ukraine’s Agriculture Minister Roman Leshchenko told the Ukraine 30 Ecology forum yesterday. “Climate change is taking place and in fact two thirds of our territory is becoming a zone of risky agricul... #AgricultureUkraine2021 #agroUkraine #DroughtinUkraine #IrrigationSystemsUkraine
This spring’s cool, wet weather will boost grain harvests by 14.5% and exports by 28%, the Ukrainian Grain Association predicted yesterday. In reality, this would return Ukraine to the bumper year of 2019/2020. Looking ahead, corn exports are to jump 27% in the coming marketing year, to... #agroUkraine #GrainfromUkraine #GrainHarvest
The US will displace Ukraine as China’s top source of corn this year as predicted on the China’s Global Times news website. In the first two months of this year, China’s corn imports increased by 414% yoy, to 4.8 million tons. The US pulled ahead of Ukraine, largely du... #agroUkraine #CornExport #UkrainianCorn
Ukraine’s grain exports could rebound by 19% in the upcoming marketing year, reaching 54 million tons, predicted APK-Inform, the agriculture consultancy. Ukraine could export: 29.50 million tons of corn; 20 million tons of wheat; and 4.3 million tons of barley. In the last decade, Ukraine more than qua... #agroUkraine #grainexport #GrainExport2021
April’s soaking rains and a good start to the spring sowing campaign lead Economy Ministry analysts to predict a bumper grain crop of 75 million tons in 2021. This would be 15% over last year’s output. State weather forecasters said last month around 98% of Ukrainian winter wheat crops and 100% of winter barley were in good condition. #agroUkraine #GrainHarvest2021 #GrainUkraine #Harvest2021
Soybeans, a footnote to Ukraine’s grain story, are expected to see a 36% jump in production in the upcoming marketing year, 3.8 million tons. The USDA attributes this to a change in tax laws that make soybean production more profitable. Exports in the upcoming marketing year are expected to reach 2 million tons, up 20% over last year. This ... #agroUkraine #Soybeans #Soybeansexport
Ukraine, the world’s largest sunflower oil exporter, is expected to increase sun oil exports by 17% in the upcoming marketing year, to 6.5 million tons. With cooking oil price hikes pushing up Ukraine’s March inflation, the Economy Ministry and the Ukroliyaprom Trade Association agreed Monday to limit sunflower oil exports to 5.38 million tons in the ... #AgricultureUkraine #agroUkraine #SunflowerOil #Sunfloweroilexport
The EBRD is also lending $57 million to the Kernel Group to improve the storage, transportation and export of agricultural commodities , the bank reported in a press release. The loan is part of a $200 million syndication arranged by French investment bank Natixis for Kernel, the world’s leading producer and exporter of sunflow... #agroUkraine #ebrd #Kernel #KernelGroup
