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Land Market Law or Random Number Generator
Verkhovna Rada voted to lift the moratorium on sale of land –it is a good news. Which is a bad one?
more16.10.2018
Brexit - chance for Ukrainian agribusiness
The UK government has been defending a liberal agrarian policy in the European Union for the past few decades, demanding substantial reductions in agriculture subsidies in the EU and matching them with environmental requirements.
more13.06.2018
Argentina-Ukraine (agrarian score) 8-2
There are few countries in the world that are similar to Ukraine in terms of the effectiveness of agribusiness and the role of agriculture in the country's economy. One of them, of course, is Argentina. The share of agriculture in the GDP of this Latin American country is up to 8%. The share of exports equals 58.8%.
more23.05.2018
Ukrainian public agribusiness: return to the growth path
The situation in the segment of Ukrainian public agrarian companies improved during 2017 for the first time since the beginning of the crisis of 2014, connected with the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and the beginning of military operations in the East.
more20.04.2018
«Feet can't catch up with the head» or what is slowing down big data in agriculture?
Until recently, the Information revolution has manifested itself mainly through an innovations wave, which has covered almost exclusively the technical aspect of IT. Tools for aggregating, storing and managing data, as well tools for its processing and analysis have undergone radical changes.
more23.03.2018
Why does Ukraine need a new technical regulation for tractors
The abolition of the UkrSEPRO certification and its replacement for type approval procedures and obtaining a certificate for agricultural tractors raised the issue of updating the current legislation.
more21.02.2018
Is it possible to combine state support and progress?
Subsidies and other types of government support for the sector lead to a reduction in competition with producers in other countries, weaken and have nothing to do with progress. This is the view point of the agrarian community part who believes that natural selection can lead the sector to success.
more12.01.2018
We will return the money for agro-drones or what about the compensation?
The topic of innovations and civil drones was repeatedly raised by the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman by telling about the good potential in the technological sector of the agroindustrial complex and unmanned technologies…This is a chance for the government to start such an excellent synergy as agro-innovation technologies.
more07.12.2017
Will the agro-industrial complex be able to rewrite history?
Agribusiness of Ukraine this year continues to pleasantly surprise. Agro-export reached the record figure in the history this year. According to the State Fiscal Service, the positive balance of foreign trade in agricultural products in Ukraine for the three quarters of 2017 increased by almost a third (31%) compared to the same period in 2016 and reached about USD10 bln.
more22.11.2017
Agroholdings: vertical integration as a protective reaction to hostile environment
The attitude to big business, even in the richest developed countries, remains biased, and its role in the economy is the subject of debate. But the role and contribution of Ukrainian agrarian holdings in the development of Ukrainian agro-industrial production in particular, and in the Ukrainian economy as a whole, can’t be overemphasized. What is the reason for the domination of large “forms” in Ukraine and what will be the consequences in the future?
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