A trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the European Commission, and Romania was held with the support of the European Union. The talks focused on coordinating efforts to improve and develop export capacities through the Ukrainian and Romanian channels of the Danube river.
Yesterday, March 8, the leadership of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine met with a delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The parties discussed the current situation in Ukraine's agricultural sector and its priority needs. They focused on the need to ensure liquidity of the agricultural market, implementation of an irrigation reform and solving the problem of demining of agricultural land.
Australia is expected to report record-breaking agricultural exports in the current financial year, the government said on Tuesday, after years of high rainfall boosted yields.
The Minister of Entrepreneurship and National Production of Italy, Adolfo Urso, emphasizes the importance of developing Ukraine’s transport corridor with northern Italian cities to contribute to the recovery of the country’s war-torn economy.
That’s according to Italian mass media, Ukrinform reports.
Yesterday, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced three new partnerships to help Ukraine overcome immediate and long-term export logistics challenges caused by Russia’s full-scale war. USAID, Grain Alliance, Kernel, and Nibulon plan to make combined investments of more than $44 million to support storage and infrastructure expansion in Ukraine’s agriculture sector. The investments are projected to increase Ukraine’s grain shipping capacity by more than 3.35 million tons annually, bolstering Ukraine’s economy and bringing much-needed grain to the global market.
Argentina has confirmed its first case of bird flu in industrial poultry, its agriculture secretary said on Tuesday, causing it to suspend avian product exports and raising fears the disease could spread and hurt exports from the South American nation.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has supported amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2023” to provide charterers, operators and/or owners of ships and inland navigation vessels with guarantees of compensation for damage caused by russian aggression. Up to UAH 20 billion is provided for these purposes.
The relevant amendments were developed by the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development in cooperation with Members of Ukrainian Parliament and the Parliamentary Budget Committee.
When Ukraine recaptured Kherson in November, Andrii Povod returned to find his grain farm in ruins. Two tractors were missing, most of the wheat was gone and all 11 buildings used to store crops and machinery had been bombed and burned.
The farm bears the scars of Russian shelling and unexploded ordnance riddles the fields but it's the less visible damage to Ukraine's famously fertile soil after a year of war that could be the hardest to repair.
Last week, the Ukrainian pavilion opened in the UAE at the Gulfood 2023 international agro-industrial exhibition.
The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation became one of the partners who helped Ukrainian business to participate in this exhibition.
Spain will allocate EUR 4.4 million to the Grain from Ukraine initiative together with the World Food Program.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said this at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday, February 23.