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After Ukraine becomes the associate member of the European Union, the country will be able to bring the EU to the position of the world leader on grain exports, declared Leonid Kozachenko, President of UAC. According to him, the association of Ukraine with the EU will lead to some redistribution of roles on the world grain market, and changing of the world ratings of international grain suppliers.

The enactment of long-awaited laws to permit the selling of agricultural land was touted as key to President Viktor Yanukovych's agenda. But, after more than two years in power, the effort has stalled. Long-awaited changes were supposed to be adopted by parliament in 2011 to create an agricultural land market, stripping Ukraine of another of its socialistic Soviet vestiges.

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.