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The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine caused damages to the agricultural sector of the country for the total amount of $4.29 billion. It is stated in the analysis "Agricultural War Damages Review Ukraine"**, prepared by the team of the Center for Food Research and Land Use KSE Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. "Russia's aggression affects not only the ability to freely export our agricultural products and feed about 400 million people a year around the globe. Damage to land, infrastructure, and agr...

At the beginning of June, an accounting rate was raised up to 25%, which was approved by the decision of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine № 262-rsh «On the amount of accounting rate». This step of the National Bank of Ukraine will negatively affect business, including agricultural one. This opinion was expressed by the UAC Deputy Chairman Denys Marchuk. «For business representatives, including agricultural ones, the financial rate of banks has increased to 25...

Farmers will not have time to export the surplus of available grain in the amount of 22−23 million tons before the new harvest, which will begin in two weeks. There is a problem of grain storage. This statement was announced at a briefing by the UAC Chairman Andrii Dykun, LB correspondent reports. «Before the active phase of the war, we could export up&nb...

Prices for milk in the first decade of June were characterized by stability. Most contracts did not change their price range. Only some of them pulled up to the prices, which were set two weeks ago. There were some that saw a decrease, but now these are isolated cases in the front zone. Prices for Extra grade milk as of June 7 stopped at the level of 10.53 UAH/kg excluding VAT, which corresponds to the price fixed two weeks before. At the same time, pric...

It is symbolic that on World Milk Day, 1 June, the second session of expert talks on the topic «Export Logistics of Ukrainian Dairy Products» to support and promote dairy export during the war was held. Participants of the event took part in the discussion on the logistic issues with the key speakers participating, namely: — Vasyl Vintoniak, Director of INFAGRO Analy...

The UAC Chairman Andrii Dykun met with the representatives of the Economic Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, who recently arrived in the capital of Ukraine. The delegation was accompanied by representatives of a number of relevant associations of Lithuania — builders, grain producers, chamber of commerce. The main goal of cooperation of Lithuanian partners with Ukrainian profile associations is to promote Ukrainian exports, which have significant logistical difficulties due to ...

During the period of collaborative work of Association of milk producers of Ukraine, Ukrainian Agri Council and Association of pig producers of Ukraine on collecting and delivering of humanitarian aid, as of June 1, 87 livestock farms have already received veterinary drugs, expendable materials and equipment to support the work of farms that suffered from hostilities...

In de-occupied regions, farmers' fields are not a priority for demining. Every day there are news reports of a tractor being blown up in a field. As of mid-May, the battlefield area stands at up to 11 million hectares, almost half of which may be «contaminated» with explosive ordnance. According to ...

«I read a lot of publications on this topic, and I see a mistake that is repeated by absolutely everyone, talking about the „Ukrainian grain“ that saves the world from hunger and identifying it with wheat. This is not true — the problem is deeper and it is not seen, or just do not want to c...

Purchase prices for milk continued to rise amid a gradual recovery in domestic demand in mid-May. However, along with positive hopes for a recovery in raw milk prices and lower feed costs due to the domestic situation, dairy farms are concerned that in the midst of «green harvest» (haylage and silage, which account for 50% of the cost s...