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Agrarian Fund and State Food-Grain Corporation buy domestic grain. Due to their actions, it is possible to maintain profitable grain prices for farmers. In particular, Agrarian Fund has bought more th...

Grain stocks at agricultural facilities in Ukraine, apart from small ones, and at facilities that store and process grain, totalled 9 million tonnes as of July 1, 2013, which is 8% down on the same pe...

Ukraine plans to export 24-26 million tons of grain in 2013/14 marketing year. Such amounts may become the biggest since independence. This was announced today by Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, the Minister of...

Last week, state veterinarians and veterinary police workers checked 366 enterprises involved in the animal origin products circulation. 5 units were suspended due to the violations. In general, inspe...

Procuring and sales chains in rural areas will provide farmers with a steady income. The government plans to develop this strategy over the next few years within the initiative «Native Village&r...

Initial harvests of winter barley and wheat have already begun across Ukraine — nearly 2 weeks ahead of the usual schedule, encouraged by recent hot and dry weather. In Ukraine, barley producti...

Over 5 months this year the number of livestock significantly increased in Ukraine — cattle by 3.2%, and pigs — by 4.8%. However, the best performance demonstrated the poultry industry. He...

Over the last week the experts of State Veterinary Service in cooperation with the officers of veterinary police seized almost 43 tons of low-quality animal products. For this purpose, the veterinarie...

Ukrainian farmers have sown 91% of the planned soybeans in an area of 1,317 hectares. They expect the cultivation area to be 1443 ha. For the same period in 2012 only about 1,245 hectares of soybeans...

The number of homestead livestock slaughter cases in Ukraine in the period from 2009 to 2012 decreased by 8.4%. And now less than a third of the cattle in the country are slaughtered in the yards. And...