The draft state budget for 2019 provides spending on the agro-industrial sector 15.7 billion UAH, which is 605.4 million UAH more than in 2018. This is stated in the document, which is at AgroPolit.com disposal.
Industry associations, producers, farmers, representatives of cooperatives within the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine expressed their dissatisfaction and concern.
On February 8, 2018 the chairman of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association Iryna Palamar spoke at an open meeting on the implementation of the most effective tools to support the development of the agro-industrial complex in general and livestock production in particular, what happened at the premises of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association expresses to you and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine deep respect and sincere gratitude for the unprecedented support in the year 2010 of the livestock sector in 4 billion UAH, which producers, especially medium and small, need, in the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018". This shows that for the state now the development and support of the livestock sector is one of the key priorities.
On February 7, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved programs to support the agrarian sector in key areas within the State Budget for 2018. The total amount of support will amount to 6.3 billion UAH versus 5.5 billion UAH in the previous year.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman met today with the leadership of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the heads of state banks and deputies to discuss the working mechanism for distributing budgetary subsidies for the agro-industrial complex.
In the program of direct budgetary subsidies for the agricultural sector in 2018, the government has not laid a single kopeck, then where should we wait for support from and what kind of support will it be.
On November 14, the first reading adopted one of the most important documents regulating the country's life - the Draft Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018".
The Draft Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2018" provides for an increase in financing of the livestock sector by 13.5 times the cost. In 2017, according to the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2017", funding under the budget program "State Support to Livestock" is 170 million UAH, and in 2018 the figure should grow to 2.3 billion UAH.