Stock breeding in private farms can only develop if cooperatives or clusters develop, and there will be no other way. This was reported by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva during a press conference.

On March 21, in Rivne region, another practical seminar was held within the framework of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy's explanatory campaign on government support programs for 2018. The event was held with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Viktor Sheremeta, representatives of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Rivne Regional State Administration, united territorial communities, heads of farms and cooperatives, agricultural producers.

The Office of State Property of Poland has strengthened inspections at airports for the detection of animal products in baggage, which may cause further spread of ASF in the territory of the European Union. This is reported by the interregional environmental organization "Green Front", reports UNN.

According to the Prime Minister, at the moment, taking into account processing, agriculture accounts for 16-17% of Ukraine's GDP, UNIAN reports.

Introduction of the agricultural land market in Ukraine will create a powerful layer of the middle class in rural areas. This was said in the report of the World Bank's conference on land relations and poverty by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Olena Kovalova in Washington. She noted that the government continues to maintain the abolition of the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land in the list of priority tasks and is working to develop the infrastructure of the future land market, the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

On March 13, 2018, after publication in the Official Gazette of Ukraine, the orders of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine of December 4, 2017 No. 642 "On Approval of the Procedure for Identification and Registration of Cattle and the Procedure for Issuing and Issuing Passports of Cattle", registered by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on February 13, 2018 under № 166/31618 and of January 16, 2018 No. 20 "On Approval of the Procedure for Identification and Registration of Sheep and Goats" was approved by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on February 7, 2018 under No. 155/31607.

All-Ukrainian protest action that was organised by the Ukrainian Stock breeders Association on March 6 under the walls of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appeared to be very fruitful. Agricultural producers from all over Ukraine defended their rights to an honest and transparent distribution of state subsidies, and finally they were heard. However ... not by Ukrainian officials, and not by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, but by the European Parliament.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food to support farms through a system of bills is illegal. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council Mykhailo Sokolov during the presentation of an assessment of the procedure for using state agricultural support funds on February 28, AgroPolit.com correspondent reports.

On December 6, 2017 The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the State Agency for Electronic Governance and the Eastern Europe Foundation presented a new electronic service for registering lease contracts for agricultural land on-line.

As of September 12, the volume of financing on agrarian receipts in Ukraine has reached one billion UAH