Ukrlandfarming believes it can fill its 2019 labor needs – 2,000 workers – by courting graduating high school students

Ukrlandfarming believes it can fill its 2019 labor needs – 2,000 workers – by courting graduating high school students and offering them training with the farm group, Nataliya Romanenko, HR director, tells Business news site. She complains that Ukraine’s ratio of university students to vocational students is 70/30 – the reverse of the EU. “Lack of work is becoming less and less a determining factor for migration,” she says. “There are vacancies, even a decent salary…but hiring staff, especially in Western Ukraine, is very not easy.”