The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation assures that "growing corn and wheat is no longer profitable"
Excessively high logistics costs caused by continued Russian attacks on key export routes and other consequences of the invasion continue to hit Ukrainian agricultural producers.
The general director of one of the main associations in the agricultural sector, Pavlo Koval, told EFE that this situation forces many to leave this sector.
However, Ukrainian farmers are likely to cope with these challenges. This was stated by Pavlo Koval, general director of the Ukrainian agrarian confederation, at a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine – Odesa.
The All-Ukrainian Public Organization «Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation» together with the leading agrarian associations that are part of the PU “Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum” - the Public Union “Agrarian Union of Ukraine”, the Public Union “All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council”, the Association «Poultry Union of Ukraine», the Association “Ukrainian Club of the Agrarian Business” appealed to the Executive Vice-President, Trade Commissioner of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, with a request to support the initiative to introduce subsidies by the European Commission for transportation of Ukrainian agricultural products to the ports of the Baltic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia.
The region was one of the five regions of Ukraine in terms of agricultural land. This was stated by Pavlo Koval, general director of the Ukrainian agrarian confederation, at a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine – Odesa.
First, on the evening of June 5, Russia damaged an ammonia pipeline in Kharkiv Oblast.
This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Civil-Military Administration, Oleh Synyehubov.
Ukrainian agricultural companies receive licences for demining land for growing products. General Director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Pavlo Koval, announced this on May 12 during a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center Odesa.
The specialist told about the tricks with the passage of ships under oil and selective inspection of Russians.
Moscow earns from idle ships with Ukrainian products in the Bosphorus. General Director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation Pavlo Koval told about this at a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center Odesa.
Ukraine hopes to sell stockpiled grain across its border with the European Union (EU) after agricultural exports fell by a third in April and before the start of the new harvest, while the route from Black Sea ports remains blocked by Russia.
The volume of grain exports from Ukraine decreased from 6.7 million tons in March to 5.3 million tons in April, the State Customs Service reports.
This is stated in the joint appeal of the leading public associations of the agri-food sector of Ukraine. The agricultural community is extremely concerned about the situation with the unilateral ban on the import of Ukrainian food to certain EU countries.
We are talking about the decision of the Governments of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria to ban the import of agricultural products from Ukraine. These decisions also provoke certain similar actions of other EU countries that are neighbours of Ukraine. In particular, there are currently ongoing discussions in Romania.
The UN-backed grain corridor is the main exit route for Ukrainian agricultural exports, so the decision by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria to block them too will cause considerable damage to Ukrainian farmers and a sector hard hit by the war.
Kyiv's hope is that a negotiated solution will be found on a multilateral scale between Ukraine, the national governments involved and the European Commission (EC), whose decision to lift tariffs on its products triggered a reaction from the four eastern countries.