On 29 June, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified the Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union on Ukraine’s participation in the EU’s Fiscalis programme for cooperation in the field of taxation.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted Resolution No. 637 “On amendments to the Procedure for Certification, Issuance and Cancellation of Certificates for Seeds and/or Planting Material”. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
Last week, deminers surveyed more than 5,000 hectares of agricultural land in four regions of the country and cleared more than 3,000 hectares, according to regional military administrations. In total, more than 150,000 hectares of farmland have been surveyed since the beginning of the year, out of the 470,000 hectares planned for priority clearance.
Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, presented the Agricultural Development Strategy for the next ten years at the International Ukraine Recovery Conference in London.
Ukraine aims to clear and bring 80% of potentially contaminated land back into productive use within ten years. This was stated by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, in her speech at the session on humanitarian demining held on 22 June as part of the Recovery Conference in London.
The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company and the International Finance Corporation signed an agreement at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023 in London in the presence of Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.
As a result of the Recovery Conference in London, Ukraine has succeeded in attracting additional financial resources for reconstruction, building a business coalition for investment, and strengthening coordination with international partners. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the closing press conference.
The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine published today additional details on the establishment of the recently announced Ukraine Development Fund (UDF) and the investment opportunities expected to be brought about by this new institution.
Astarta is to receive a USD30m financing package from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD) to help the Company become more resilient under adverse conditions caused by the russia’s war against Ukraine.
14 oblasts of Ukraine have fully completed the sowing of spring crops. So far, 12.9 million hectares of grain, leguminous and oil crops, as well as sugar beet, have been sown. In particular, 5 million 619 thousand hectares were sown with cereals and legumes, of which: