Today, December 8, the online event “Agricultural statistics of Ukraine – current state and development prospects in the context of European integration” was held, in which the management and experts of the SI “Derzhgruntokhorona” took part.
The purpose of the event was to discuss approaches and proposals for the further development of agricultural statistics of Ukraine.
As a result of the decentralization reform, significant changes took place, including in the management of the agricultural sector of Ukraine at the local level. One of the open issues remains the collection of statistical information in agricultural enterprises. Previously, such information was required and pre-processed by district agrarian administrations, which in the process of changing the structure of agrarian administration practically lost their significance in many regions of Ukraine.
In turn, making balanced agropolitical decisions and sustainable development of the agrarian sector is possible only when using the approach of policy formation based on factual data. Since the role of individual links in this system changed in the process of decentralization, and the vertical itself was transformed, the system of collecting statistical data on agricultural production also needs corresponding changes.
Given the accelerated process of European integration of Ukraine, the relevant requirements for the collection of statistical data in the EU can also become an example that should be guided by when updating the existing system and fulfilling the obligations assigned to Ukraine.
The event was simultaneously translated into Ukrainian and German.