Today, August 22, the online event “Modern challenges in Ukrainian agricultural production” was held, in which the management of SI “Derzhgruntokhorona” took part.
Organizer – German-Ukrainian agropolitical dialogue.
With the start of a full-scale war on the territory of Ukraine, agricultural production is suffering. In addition to limited access to the agricultural lands themselves, procurement and transportation of means of production are becoming more difficult, there is not enough labor, and the production infrastructure is partially destroyed. One of the biggest challenges remains harvesting and subsequent logistics for export.
Denys Bashlyk, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitization, and Ophelia Nik, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany made a welcome speech at the event.
Reports were made by:
– Pavlo Koval, general director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Conference NGO, member of the VAF – “Harvest progress and prospects for autumn sowing – current state and expectations of agrarian business”;
– Martin Banze, Tyunen Institute – “The global situation regarding world food security – challenges and current discussions regarding the war in Ukraine”.
During the panel discussion, international experts, representatives of Ukrainian agrarian policy, agrarian economy and agrarian science exchanged opinions on the current situation in the agricultural production of Ukraine. The focus was on the 2022 harvest, its current state and forecast for autumn. They also considered the situation in the war zones, storage capacities, the possibilities of transportation by alternative routes, and the prospects for the autumn harvest and further cultivation in 2023.
The event was simultaneously translated into German and Ukrainian.