The Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC) appealed to Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy Oleksandr Haida and Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi with a request to limit the launch of the agricultural land market in 2024.

Legislative changes to the conditions of agricultural land turnover, which are envisaged from 2024, are inappropriate in a situation where Ukrainian farmers are going through perhaps the most difficult challenges in the history of independent Ukraine: they are constantly suffering financial and physical losses due to blocked ports, destroyed production facilities, shelled and mined Ukrainian fields.

"The next stage of land reform, which will start in 2024, is becoming a new challenge for Ukrainian farmers. Starting next year, the limit on the amount of agricultural land for one enterprise will be increased from the current 100 to 10,000 hectares, and the sale of land to legal entities will be allowed. At a time when domestic agricultural producers have been operating at a complete loss for the second year in a row due to logistical problems and low prices for agricultural products in the country, the increase in this limit will not bring any practical benefit to small and medium-sized agricultural producers. They simply do not have the funds to buy agricultural land.

In fact, such an increase in the limit of agricultural land in ownership, under current conditions, can be beneficial only to those companies that have the opportunity to obtain financing abroad by attracting loans, issuing bonds, etc. The rest of the agricultural producers will be deprived of this opportunity at least until the end of the war," is mentioned in the statement.

In order to maintain the balance and provide equal rights for all Ukrainian farmers without exception, the Ukrainian Agri Council opposes raising the limit of the permissible amount of land owned by one person from the current 100 to 10,000 hectares in one hand from 2024, but does not deny the admission of legal entities to the market, since according to the Land Code of Ukraine, only citizens of Ukraine can be owners of such legal entities (who buy land).

At the same time, the UAC proposes to keep the 100-hectare limit for both legal entities and individuals until the end of the war and for two more years after the victory.