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. Representatives of associations and small and medium-sized farmers claim that the FAO does not implement or implement international aid projects for war-affected regions incompletely.

At the beginning of March 2024, the FAO promised to provide Ukrainian small and medium-sized agricultural producers with wheat seeds for spring sowing. Farmers have not received the promised seeds, although the spring wheat sowing campaign is already actively underway.

The project to provide sunflower and soybean seeds, applications for which were accepted until March 24, has also come under question. There is no exact date for the distribution of seeds, so farmers who have counted on this assistance cannot plan their sowing.

Similarly, farmers still have not received modular granaries, applications for which were submitted until January 21.

The FAO has not provided any information regarding the timing of these promised deliveries.