The world leader in the production of irrigation systems plans to enter the Ukrainian market. The entry of the US company, Valmont Industries, was announced by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Roman Leshchenko. Valmont Industries has a 75-year history of full-cycle irrigation equipmen... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology #ValmontIndustries
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 ... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
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... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology #KSGAgro #KSGAgroUkraine
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... #IFCinUkraine #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
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
Ukraine’s Soviet-era irrigation system has largely collapsed, according to an explanatory note accompanying a Rada bill to allow farmers to create water cooperatives. In 1990, the last year of the Soviet Union, “hydraulic reclamation” was carried out on 23 milli... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
Of Ukraine’s 41.5 million hectares, 57% need some form of irrigation. The bill’s note says18.7 million hectares need constant irrigation and 4.8 million need periodic irrigation. Expected to pass this year, the bill would break the state monopoly on setting water rates,... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
After last year’s drought caused up to $4 billion in crop losses to southern farmers, the Agriculture Ministry is launching a pilot project to restore irrigation systems in Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia regions. Minister Leshchenko writes on Facebook: “We will rebuild and exp... #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
In Odesa alone, the government is spending $92 million this year in a crash effort to restore irrigation . If the Rada passes the irrigation bill, Leshchenko tells the Kyiv Post he expects the EBRD and the World Bank to loan Ukraine $2 billion to rebuild its irrigation systems. #IrrigationSystemsUkraine #IrrigationTechnology
