Unlocking the privatization process will allow companies to create new industries and ensure food security

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The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food urges the people's deputies of Ukraine to support in the second reading and as a whole the bill #7451, unblocking the privatization process and allowing entrepreneurs to create new production facilities and guarantee food security of the state in the near term.

Ukrainian agrarians urgently need access to the infrastructure of storage and processing of grain, which can be provided by the facilities of state enterprises — combines bakeries (KHP) and distilleries (assets of state enterprise «Ukrspirt» and the concern «Ukrspirt»). The business is ready to invest in the launch of production, refurbishment of enterprises and production with a high share of added value. To this end, potential investors must obtain assets in private ownership.

Because of the enemy blockade of the Black Sea ports in Ukraine has accumulated more than 20 million tons of grain and oilseeds crops, which could not be exported in 2021. This year's harvest is expected to be about 50 million tons of grain, which will make the issue of grain storage critical. By October this year Ukrainian agrarians will have a shortage of storage capacity in the amount of 10−15 million tons.

The reduction of the existing agrarian infrastructure will demotivate agricultural producers to work in the next agricultural season. As a result, there will be high risks of a systemic crisis of the agrarian sector, which will affect both the export potential of Ukraine and national food security.

Already today it is necessary to look for new opportunities for processing and storage of grain, as well as the creation of products with added value. Additional facilities can be equipped on the basis of facilities that are state-owned and not used efficiently.

State-owned distillery assets are supplied with utilities and capacity to quickly start production facilities for processing grains into alcohol for technical and chemical needs.

More at: agravery.com