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Ukrainian Agrarian Policy Minister strives for agrarian industry attractiveness enhancing
22.02.2016 12:56 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
"In 2016, Ukraine has a chance to reach a record level of grain export again. We have set a record by exporting 35 million tons of grain in 2015. This year, we are going to export more than 36 million tons of grain. The harvest will depend on the weather conditions. I expect that we will reach the volume no fewer than we had a year ago - more than 60 million tons," Government Portal reports quoting Oleksiy Pavlenko, the Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, as speaking in his interview.
What regards the State support for the industry, Oleksiy Pavlenko stressed that the Ministry wanted to receive up to UAH4 million of budget allocations as the support for farmers. But the shortage of money in the State budget stimulates us to focus on other priority tasks.
«As I have already said, deregulation is our current main focus. The other direction is the cooperation with our international donors. Today we have already seen the results of cooperation with the European Investment Bank - we managed to sign an agreement to attract UAH10 milliard of loan for farmers. The other step is the attraction of investments to recover the irrigation systems in 5 southern regions of Ukraine. This step will enable us to increase yields in this regions by 810 million tons and to create more than 100 thousand jobs. In the framework of this project, we intend to invest US$1.52 milliard within 20162017,» the Minister said.
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