The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy has supported the draft Law of Ukraine "On the Association of Agricultural Producers" No.8149.

The war in Ukraine has affected all producers without exception. Even if they have not suffered direct damage as a result of hostilities or occupation, everyone has felt the disruption of their usual routines. The challenges of wartime made them take a different view of their activities and understand the benefits. This was also the case for Belyaivski LLC, a small enterprise in Zaporizhzhia.

Work on improving pig farm biosecurity between the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders (AUPB) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) project has been ongoing since 2014. During this time, an online questionnaire covering all aspects of biosecurity has been developed: transportation, staff hygiene, animal procurement, disinfection, feed safety, etc., and more than twenty biosecurity audits have been carried out.

The country's population consumed an average of 18 kilograms (kg) of pork between January and June of this year.

Of the main innovations:
  1. The import of generators, other equipment, Starlink without duty and VAT is introduced at the legislative level. Including for natural persons. The norm will be valid until May 2023.

The export increase program better known as the soybean dollar has increased production costs in the pork chain.

The regulation will establish a national reference value for use, which will be defined according to the species and livestock classification.

Wheat prices continued to fall after finding no support in the December WASDE report. This was reported by Barva Invest analysts.

World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Anne Bjerde confirmed that Ukraine will receive $1.7 billion by the end of the year USD 1.7 billion.

The government has allocated an additional 657 million UAH for grants under the Jobs project. Such a decision was taken at the last meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

The royal decree on animal health and protection standards during transport introduces improvements in livestock welfare conditions and requirements for professionals.

Food safety directly depends on their composition and the State Service for Food and Consumer Protection together with the Ministry of Health and the WHO continues fruitful work to ensure European standards in the field of production.

The final straightforward harvesting of grain and leguminous crops is coming to an end.

Power outages will not significantly affect the cost of food in Ukraine and will not provoke a shortage of them. This was said by the first Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky, writes the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

Despite the seizure of a large number of agricultural lands, the destruction of crops and agricultural equipment by the enemy, the withdrawal of some from circulation due to their mines and damage by explosive objects - Ukraine continues to provide the world with food.

They will be financed at the expense of the European Investment Bank within the framework of the Program for Reconstruction of Ukraine. At the first stage 83 projects worth 4.7 billion UAH were selected to be implemented in 10 regions of Ukraine.

African swine fever (ASF) is sometimes very persistent in the environment, so the suspicion is that the disease could be transmitted to farm pigs through feed, water and bedding. This was a theoretical assumption, so researchers confirmed it scientifically.

Since August 19, when the process of small-scale privatization was resumed, the State Property Fund has held more than 120 auctions on Prozorro. The total amount of winning auctions is 1.8 billion hryvnias. Of these, 1 billion has already entered the Ukrainian budget. This is reported in the Ministry of Economy.

Power outages will not affect the cost of food and will not cause shortages. This was stated by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky during the broadcast of the All-Ukrainian marathon «Unified News». He stressed that for the basic food basket the blackout does not entail physical threats.

The main problem of the domestic agricultural sector is the minimum liquidity of agricultural products. The sale price of grain is quite low, and logistics have become much more expensive, so agrarians suffer significant losses. All these are the consequences caused by the military invasion. The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky told about it in his speech at the round table «The urgent needs of Ukrainian agricultural sector for sustainability and recovery».