New Year’s holidays are not over, but farmers are again on the streets of Kiev with pickets – “Against the sale of land”. It seems that consensus will be very difficult, and somebody will outweigh in the issue of launching the market or the circulation of agricultural land. Sociology on the subject is changing as well in turbo mode!
The purpose of the state policy for the sustainable development of Ukrainian agriculture is to ensure the growth of agricultural production and the welfare of the rural population.
The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation (UAC) always tries to be in current trends that appear in agribusiness.
ASTARTA’s farm units have successfully finished the sowing of spring crops. The total crop area sown in spring is about 170 thousand hectares, including 41 thousand hectares of sugar beet, 41 thousand hectares of sunflower, 67 thousand hectares of corn, 20 thousand hectares of soybean, and the rest under other crops (barley, oats, buckwheat, etc.).
Today the 15th Anniversary International Conference "Black Sea Grain: Moving Up the Value Chain" have started its work in Kyiv. This leading conference of the grain sector of Ukraine and the Black Sea region, organized by the UkrAgroConsult, has gathered more than 700 delegates from 50 countries of the world.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has ordered relevant ministries to develop a resolution on supporting Ukrainian fertilizer producers, in particular on ensuring the provision of Ukrainian agrarians with mineral fertilizers during the spring sowing campaign.
UAC analyzed the results of activity of agrarian enterprises of Ukraine in years 2015 and 2016, based on official statistic data. Partially, efficiency of milk production was considered. The productivity of livestock, cost and profit from milk production in agrarian enterprises of Ukraine as an indicator of economic efficiency in six groups of agrarian enterprises with different land bank have been analyzed.