Q&A with Cargill chief executive Greg Page on the gifts that nature gave to Ukraine.

Ukraine and Russia could substantially boost crop and food output if they lift export restrictions and open up more to investment, the head of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill said during a Kyiv Post interview.

Land reform has started up in Ukraine. In the course it provides the creation of special public institution for land management, the ban on land sales to foreigners and legal entities, limitation of the areas one buyer can get. How much will the land cost? What a farmer needs to know to avoid a bad bargain, and when will the sale of land start? Guests of “IZVESTIA” in Ukraine” Press Club were searching for the answers to these questions.

The Draft Law No. 8053 (hereinafter – the Draft Law) sets forth that commodities subject to state price regulation (wheat, corn, barley, etc.; sunflower and rape seeds; wheat and rye flour; granulated sugar, cattle and poultry meat; dry milk; butter; sunflower seeds oil) shall be exported only by the agricultural producers of the listed commodities in the volume of their own production and state agent that provides of export of subjects of state price regulation.

Amid all the doom and gloom, one sector in the country’s economy has a bright future and promises high yields. Despite a deep recession that sent gross domestic product plunging 15 per cent last year, some budding domestic agribusinesses reported double-digit growth.