To turn around a shrinking cow herd, Ukraine gave farmers $3.7 million in subsidies last year to maintain 176,765 calves, Martynyuk writes. But, he adds, farmers failed to use all credits available, partly because many prefer to keep their bookkeeping ‘in the black.’ This reluctance to take farms ‘out of the shadows’ also hinders farmers’ abilities to get loans from banks.
To turn around a shrinking cow herd, Ukraine gave farmers $3.7 million in subsidies last year to maintain 176,765 calves
