What steps should be taken to support agricultural producers during the crisis was discussed at the Agropolitical Forum 2022−2023: A Survival Strategy.
Thus, according to the first deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Olexander Kornienko, one of the main tasks for the Government is to prolong customs privileges for a few years in order to increase export volumes from production.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Foodstuffs of Ukraine sees support for the small producers segment. The Ministry is focused on providing an access to means of production, ensuring the sales of products through the adjustment of logistics and access to finance for agrarians.
«Under the program of preferential crediting „5−7-9%“ the agrarians can get up to 60 million hryvnias under 0% per annum, when 80% of the collateral is taken by the state through the instrument of state portfolio guarantees».
There is a preferential crediting program 579 with the state taking up to 80% of the collateral through the instrument of state portfolio guarantee.
In the second half of the year, the limit of the loan was increased to 90 million UAH, and farmers had the opportunity to extend the term of the loan.
«We have two simple solutions in front of us: to open access to the means of production and the means to buy them,» commented First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Taras Vysotsky.