Today, July 11, the Verkhovna Rada has been registered the Draft Law on Amendments to Chapter XXI "Final and Transitional Provisions" of the Customs Code of Ukraine regarding the exemption f...

Due to blocked ports and destroyed elevators in Ukraine, the issue of grain storage has become acute. This issue was stated in the appeal of the Ukrainian AgriCouncil to Minister of Agrarian Policy an...

Ukraine continues to lose dairy cows as a result of hostilities in Ukraine. According to preliminary estimates, about 50,000 milking cows have already been lost. If the active phase of the war does no...

Ukrainian farmers have an urgent need to increase logistics capacity and find solutions to overcome some of narrow railway tracks when exporting agricultural products through Romania. The Ukrainian AgriCouncil (UAC) appealed to the international organization FAO with a request to facilitate the adoption of positive decisions by the Romanian government on the above-mentioned issues. Nowadays, Ukrainian ships carrying grain and oil crops cannot set sail because the seaports are blocked by Russian warships. Ukraine had to radically change the logistics of exporting grain and other...

The main issue that must be settled at the negotiations on the unblocking of Ukrainian ports is the guarantee that Russia will not use it for an attack from the sea. Thus, on the air of the "Espr...

The Ukrainian AgriCouncil, which is a part of the Ukrainian Agrarian Forum, together with the Ukrainian Agrarian Union, Ukrainian Association of Communities, the Poultry Union of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation and the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business appealed to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi with proposals for increasing the volume of food exports. Agrarian community drew attention to the fact that nowadays, in the controlled territory of Ukraine, it expects to be exported about 20 million tons of grain and oilseeds since last year. At that time...

Why does Ukrainian Railways want to compensate for the damage caused by the ore transportation at the expense of the agrarian sector? Ukrainian agricultural sector is export-oriented, so the blockade of seaports and the territorial sea dealt a crushing blow to the agricultural industry, making it impossible to export products by con...

On June 28, a press conference "Problems of exporting agricultural products by railway transport" was held, at which the participants of the event discussed the main ways to solve the diffic...

Experts of an advisory center "Smart Country" together with USAID-AGRO joined the work on the bill №5371 "On amendments to some legislative acts on simplifying the regulation of labor relations in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises and reducing the administrative burden on entrepreneurs’ activity” In particular, in June they took part in 8 meetings of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights on consideration and revision of the bill, where they provid...

The Ukrainian Agrarian Council and the USAID Agricultural and Rural Development Program (AGRO) are launching a joint project to support the economic recovery of Ukraine's agricultural sector, whic...