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Farmers should sell foreign exchange earnings from exports at the rate set by commercial banks of Ukraine, but not at the rate of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). This statemen was mentioned and addressed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Kyryl Shevchenko and Minister of Agri...

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 ...

War means «breadbasket of the world' faces unprecedented difficulty sowing, harvesting and exporting wheat and other produce. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is leading to a dramatic decline in crops planted by farmers in the country this spring, with fears for domestic and international fo...

Planting in the southern, eastern and northern regions was about to start, but the war and weather postponed local farmers' plans. In the west as well as in the center of the country the situation is not much better. Farmers say that the main problem, besides the war with Russia, to start sowing is poor logistics. Suppliers delay seed delivery, there is lack of fuel, fertilizers and chemicals f...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens millions of tiny spring-time sprouts that should emerge from stalks of dormant winter wheat in the coming weeks. If the farmers can't feed those crops soon, far fewer of the so-called tillers will spout, jeopardizing a national wheat harvest on which millions in the developing world depend. The wheat was planted last autumn, which, after a brief growing period, fell dormant for the winter. Before the grain returns to life, however, farmers typically spread fertilizer that encou...

Reducing the VAT rate to 14% on some types of agricultural products will bring the agricultural sector out of the shadow, create equal tax conditions and increase the working capital of agricultural producers. And this in turn will stimulate the agricultural sector development. This was emphasized by agricultural producers and called on the President to sign the draft law № 3656 adopted by the deputies as soon as possible. Reducing the...

Temperatures dropped in Argentina, increasing the comfort of cows, and farmgate milk prices remain relatively high, inspiring farmers to produce more: milk deliveries in April 2018 have been +9.11% higher than April 2017 and +11.33% higher than April 2016. It is reported that large milk producers with the capacity of economies of scale continue acquiring sma...

Most EU countries have reported milk production figures for February and indications are available for March. They are still showing a lag compared with last year but with some countries catching up.  France, Europe’s second-largest milk producer, published its full February report last week showing a 3% fall compared with the same month last year. Weekly surveys conducted in March, however,...

The Department of Agriculture has announced the rolling out €6.5m under the first phase of the EU Voluntary Supply Management Scheme.  According to Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, payments to some 3,500 farmers will issue from Tuesday 28 March. Initially, 4,500 farmers had applied to the milk reduction scheme, but accord...

Approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the order of allocation of subsidies to farmers is a compensatory mechanism which provides compensations, particularly to those farmers who are engaged in all types of livestock breeding, vegetable and fruit growing and so on. This was announced by deputy of Ukraine Nikolay Kucher, reports the press service of the deputy. ''This is a great victory, because producers in these industri...