On February 9, an educational webinar on the topic "Polymer sleeves as additional capacities for grain storage" was held as part of the implementation of the Project "Support of the Public Union "Ukrainian Agri Council" in the provision of grain storage services for MSMEs", with the assistance of the USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO). More than 80 participants joined the training.

The speakers of the webinar were: Valery Alekseyev, the chief expert on planting grain from the Ukrainian Agri Council, Mykola Lisovenko, marketer of "Zavod Kobzarenko" LLC, Oleksandr Pekh, head of the commercial service of "Planeta Plastik" LLC.

Valery Alekseev started the webinar and talked about the purpose and goals of the Project Support of the Public Union "Ukrainian Agri Council" in providing grain storage services for small and medium-sized enterprises. The already achieved results of the program and the next steps were also discussed. Then the participants heard about how to choose sleeves and store grain in polymer sleeves, important points of storage fecilities: grain moisture and storage area. The participants learned about this and much more from Oleksandr Pekh.  

Mykola Lisovenko spoke about working with equipment for packing and unloading grain from sleeves:

equipment preparation;

aggregation with a tractor;

grain packing machine settings;

fixing the sleeve;

feeling grain into the sleeve;

completion of packing.

The webinar ended on the topic "Using canned grain in animal husbandry", discussing issues of herd health, feed consumption, digestibility and cost of cultivation with Valery Alekseev. After the training, the participants actively asked questions and discussed with the speakers.

The event was possible thanks to the generous support of the American people provided through the USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) implemented by Chemonics International. 

Friday, 10 February 2023

 

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